Apt Green Painted Old Tin Bread Box with Stenciled Lettering folk art marbles gameboard The blanket of white with

The blanket of white with spidery bare branches all around makes it feel even more so

but I do know if came from Ethiopia

The pin cushion comes out easily and I found a bunch of needles stored inside  (as well as some old newspaper inside

" Then inside

Quite a cast of characters (caricatures) and situations represented --my favorite being a man with pointy beard holding "bettrave triumphant" (triumphant beet

Apt Green Painted Old Tin Bread Box with Stenciled Lettering folk art marbles gameboard The blanket of white withOne could put a whole lot of bread in this old bread box which I of course love for the combination of very matter of factly stenciled "BREAD" against green paint, which points to a different sort of bread! (Rather than under the mattress, perhaps the perfect not so stealthy hiding place for stashing one's life savings!) A great merger of industrial and homespun in feeling, maybe from a camp or prison or military kitchen? 11 1 4" t x 9 1 8" wide and