Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) victorian hand frame for quite a long

frame for quite a long time

I spotted this one from 50 feet away perched in the back corner of a tent at Brimfield and it seemed as though it had just been waiting for me

8 1/8" t x 7/8" w and d and in very good condition

and the "snacs" [snakes] hatching and then fully grown

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) victorian hand frame for quite a longI 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