Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over gouache rendering To my eye such beautiful

To my eye such beautiful things

The entries are numbered to correspond to days of the month

both aesthetically and as a great

Image size approx 19 1/8" x 12"

F Fancher done as part of illustration class c

Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over gouache rendering To my eye such beautifulThis May was for me a Brimfield of gathering many little things which, if not the most profitable things to buy and sell, are of course the things that usually give me the most pleasure. This sweet old pencil box is a perfect example, humble as can be, but teeming with love and life and history. Hand carved, much worn, with names and monograms carved penciled into top and bottom, and then with this striped string threaded and wound around one end of