Antique Portable Metal Painter's Box with Palette, 1884 Patent handmade sailboat skill and patience can enable

skill and patience can enable

As obvious

welded and screwed together to form the whole

This is a beautiful large painted/swabbed antique ash splint rectangular work basket

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Antique Portable Metal Painter's Box with Palette, 1884 Patent handmade sailboat skill and patience can enableI really love the way this box was designed (in 1884) unfolding in a sequence, first to reveal the wooden palette held in place on the underside of the lid by a wire latch, and then with two doors opening out (again held in place by a wire latch) to reveal compartments for paints and brushes and whatever else inside. It's seen some use with the initials of a one time owner (T. F it appears) painted in red on the front, and with some supplies found