Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church and with a cloth hanger

and with a cloth hanger mounted on the back

14 1/2" diameter x 2 3/4" tall

The end of the handle is wrapped in leather

I believe this piece is specifically by Wilhelm Kagel Jr

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church and with a cloth hangerI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had