Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine nest I especially love the tiny

I especially love the tiny church perched on a hill in the distance

with beautiful age to the white paint

which seem perhaps to have related to "beads" mentioned later in the notebook

plus for the fact that they are a great way to display and put beautiful old clay marbles to use

Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine nest I especially love the tinyI found this one at a wonderful antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA and am quite smitten with it, for the yellow of the paint and especially for the deep red fruit punctuating the rich green vine running across the lid. Just right, and I love how the "berries" at either end are cut in half, as if to mark the edges, while the full at center marks the spot. Very charming, and quite a useful box for holding all sorts of things. With a painted over