Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Green Silk Hat Powdered Wig Lady Chromolithograph NOS Gainsborough Portrait Ephemera 🥫 1920s_advertising_label with this issue's printed date

with this issue's printed date of September 1

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Antique Edwardian Candy Box Insert Green Silk Hat Powdered Wig Lady Chromolithograph NOS Gainsborough Portrait Ephemera 🥫 1920s_advertising_label with this issue's printed dateWho was the beauty in the powdered wig, and why did she grace a box of Edwardian sweets? Some faces look backward even in their own time. The lady on this Edwardian candy box presentation insert is one of them a young woman of the early 1900s dressed in the powder and silk of a full century before, gazing out from an oval as if she'd stepped straight from an eighteenth century portrait gallery. She was printed to lie across the top of a fine box of