Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings You may be better at

You may be better at deciphering the long note written in very small print on the back of this real photo postcard than I

The lid features a striking interplay of thin splint strips and braided sweetgrass woven over thicker orange splints

is just the sort of thing I am forever opening antique books in hopes of finding--but never do

but no notable tears or major stains

England with Geoffrery Whiting

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings You may be better atI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early