Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer the other looks to have

the other looks to have once been backed with black satin

and one can almost hear them chattering away

Stable and sound and resilient

so best left untrimmed and floated in frame

6 3/8" x 2" x 1 5/8" t

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer the other looks to haveI love an old pencil box and really love this one, 19th century I believe, found in Maine and with a very old pencil found inside of it. This is much better in hand, with the paint decorated body of the turned wooden pencil box just gorgeous, a swirly mix of white and blue and brown, and some gold paint gilding still hanging on to the end cap. And the shape of its tip, with squared end, really completes it for me. It looks perhaps like there is an