Old Hand-Painted First Aid Box with Carved Lettering Too Romany Spartan art pottery plate of indignation

of indignation

these two letters and envelopes chosen primarily for their aesthetic value--I love the dense flurry of letters and flourishes on one of them

it appears to be signed on the wooden seat below

During the late 1920s and 1930s

Plenty of surface rusting but in great structural condition

Old Hand-Painted First Aid Box with Carved Lettering Too Romany Spartan art pottery plate of indignationNot the first great old First Aid box I've come across, but definitely one of my favorites, and with this terrific hand painted lettering over old gray paint seeming to have covered some even earlier, very crudely carved lettering which definitely spells out PLANES and I believe AMERICA below that, and the name Jim Kelley at lower left with planes again and USA. Plus some other letters it's a bit hard to decipher. I'd guess this one saw wartime, but