Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint frog mug This book is worth owning

This book is worth owning for the list of patterns alone--- which includes large-scale elements but also such intimate ones as "sitting wall

Box measures 2 3/4" x 3 7/8" x 1/2"

and though I have not been able to find out much about it

It is in good condition

as well as terrific in a farmhouse

Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint frog mug This book is worth owningThere is something so satisfying to me about old handmade wooden boxes that close alone an angled edge like this. This one, with the lid held on by one simple nail, I am pretty certain dates to the late 1800s. It still bears some of its original red paint (which reads orange), as well as pencil marks all over! Much of that pencil appears to be scribbles, but I can at least make out "Millie" on one side, "Nicky" on the bottom, and a "Yo" on one short