Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint signed David gil This 12 hole chromonic harmonica

This 12 hole chromonic harmonica in the key of G features a sliding piece (at right)

5 which I might guess meant ounces or grams per unit

with a second green-faced portrait inside

This teapot was designed by Lagardo Tackett for Schmid Porcelain in the 1960s and made in Japan

and then a rocky ground peeking out below it where she stands

Stunning Antique Bentwood Handle Wooden Pantry Box in Blue Paint signed David gil This 12 hole chromonic harmonicaI'm not an expert on antique bentwood pantry boxes, but I've looked at enough to recognize a really beautiful and beautifully constructed one, and this, though missing a lid, is most definitely is that to me it completely embodies why one might become obsessed with antique bentwood pantry boxes! The blue paint is, to my eye, just out of this world, as is the bleed from the neat row of fat iron nails down the seam. 19th century New England I believe