Trinket Boxes Lined with Lancaster Newspapers, Including an 1812 Albrecht Newspaper.

Unfortunately, in 1802 Lancaster's Porcupine newspaper (Deutsche Porcupein) lost its excellent rodent name, when Johann Albrecht renamed his newspaper Der Americanische Staatsbothe (The American Herald).

After Johann's death in 1806, his sons continued this newspaper, in various forms, until the 1830s.

Occasionally, Lancaster newspapers were used to line the insides of straw-decorated trinket boxes. My photographs, here, show two trinket boxes lined with Lancaster newspapers.

These newspapers were glued into both boxes before the straw decoration was applied, suggesting these boxes were created in the Lancaster area in the early 1800s. The one box is lined with an 1812 Americanisher Staatsbothe newspaper.  (A fragment of the newspaper's masthead is on the bottom of the box.) I have not determined the identity of the 1826 newspaper inside the second box, although the newspaper's text identifies it as a Lancaster paper.

P.S. The button-eyed (owl?) is from the Nissley family in Mount Joy, Lancaster County. It was probably given as a gift to Anna Nissley, a young Mennonite girl, in the 1930s.