Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering early 20th century Chinese cinnabar box and driven by the immediacy

and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play

with with small dings to the silver here and there

"Thorny is the wicked's pill

all in good shape

Or hot crossed buns

Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering early 20th century Chinese cinnabar box and driven by the immediacyMy guess is that this was the ice fishing tackle box of a boy of 13 or so who was also very into baseball, giving the "g" at the end of "Fishing" a very baseball uniform logo esque tail. The "ice" on the top, which makes me think of block ice and early Diary Queen and the like, is pretty fabulous too. I'm not sure if the third word on the lid is meant to read "gon'fishing" or is a last name, but either way this makes me purely happy. Plus three