Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates painting of steam liner I've been stalking antique prints/book

I've been stalking antique prints/book pages documenting astronomical phenomenon of late

I'll throw in a few extra dice that I bought along with these

displayed on the book shelf--or

I found it in the Hudson River Valley

Mid 19th C. Wallpaper Collar Box with Newspaper Debate About Texas Statehood and Postal Rates painting of steam liner I've been stalking antique prints/bookI found this one along with the other I just listed, perhaps made by the same person, this one I think perhaps a few years earlier, as the newspaper on the underside features transcription of a senate debate relating to whether, now a state, Texas's debts should become the responsibility of the Federal government. (Texas became a state in 1845.) Of course I think like the think of the large, single, star like flower on one side of the box as a nod to