Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over hand dyed thread and perhaps especially the rendering

and perhaps especially the rendering of the seated cross-legged next to his campfire int he background

Very quiet and very beautiful I think

a bit of splitting in a couple spots on the roof

and would certainly think based on the weathering of the wood that it was situated outdoors

This teak tray

Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over hand dyed thread and perhaps especially the renderingThis May was for me a Brimfield of gathering many little things which, if not the most profitable things to buy and sell, are of course the things that usually give me the most pleasure. This sweet old pencil box is a perfect example, humble as can be, but teeming with love and life and history. Hand carved, much worn, with names and monograms carved penciled into top and bottom, and then with this striped string threaded and wound around one end of