Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat The expressive but subtly rendered

The expressive but subtly rendered brown

and tactile to boot

and making opening the mail feel a little more festive

” who then (I bet it was him) crayoned numbers and letters onto all sides

western frontier spirit

Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat The expressive but subtly renderedI really love this old box, I presume made for holding writing implements. It looks like a tall and narrow book to me, with the short sides slightly recessed from the long sides so as to look like pages. With its original wired hinges, and a wire loop that comes up through a cut in the wood of the top to meet a small brass hook. Nice bleeding around the forged iron nails, and a well worn woven green fabric lining. First half 19th c. I'd think, and