Best Old Swing Lid Pencil Box in Best Old Blue Paint carved drawing and pair of sun flowers

and pair of sun flowers looking to the sky

This is larger than the size one typically sees

and right hand left empty for the student to complete the drawing lesson

I rather like those white stitches as a sort of looser form of mark making on top of the meticulous piecework

Best Old Swing Lid Pencil Box in Best Old Blue Paint carved drawing and pair of sun flowersAs pure of form as it gets, and clad in the most perfect old blue paint, I do believe this is my favorite pencil box I've had, and I have a special love for pencil boxes. The second photo shows the angled cuts of the box and lid ends to my eye a very beautiful thing as one slides across the other. With what looks like an well worn old paper label on the short side at that end, and a rivet at the other allowing the lid to turn 360s degrees. Found in