New Puritan Lead etched wooden box I've got a real soft

I've got a real soft spot for inlaid folk art wooden boxes like this one

with a few scratches to the finish at the base of the handle and a couple of black spots on the wood

and a remnant of thread at his waist

Otherwise just some staining

and a couple of scratches near top center of the sky (see detail photos)--neither particularly visible when inside the frame

New Puritan Lead etched wooden box I've got a real softSomething in the combination of text and material just spoke to me when I found these blocks of New Puritan Lead the other day in Maine, weighing in at about 8 pounds. It seems somehow rather poignant that "Puritan" and lead should be linked, perhaps as if to signify the heavy weight of the puritanical in many senses. And the font on the text seems perfectly right, declarative and unwavering. (A little bit Jenny Holzer esque too.) To my sensibilities,