Great Old Pine Knife Box / Carrying Caddy with Original Red Paint vin tage ephemera There is a little paint

There is a little paint loss to one leg on one side

but especially the flurry of stitches for the mouth and whiskers

and also because it's fun to play with a set of double nines

I just can't resist naive floral watercolors like this one

Great Old Pine Knife Box / Carrying Caddy with Original Red Paint vin tage ephemera There is a little paintOne sees a lot of these sorts of boxes around, sometimes called knife or utensil boxes, sometimes tool caddies, etc., and really handy for all sorts of things. I usually let them go, but the honest elegance and especially the old red paint on this one completely won me, and I find it really a very beautiful thing. Gorgeous aging to the paint, nice old fat nails visible around the perimeter of the underside, and not a fussy thing about it. 15 15 16" x