Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine paint by numbers landscape plus facial expression that looks

plus facial expression that looks quintessentially a catcher's to me

with her face reminding me rather of the sculptural women of Gaston Lachaise

:) Poor little doggy

which shows up just a tiny bit on the inside

1920s-30s I would guess

Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine paint by numbers landscape plus facial expression that looksI 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