Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint vintage masonic with glazes --one a painterly

with glazes --one a painterly brown and dark indigo

or tea bags--is a great example

Animals are about 2 3/4" long give or take

I just love these old wooden spinning tops as objects

Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint vintage masonic with glazes --one a painterlyThere 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