Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over gouache rendering The entries are numbered to

The entries are numbered to correspond to days of the month

reminding one to take the occasional break

is in excellent condition

To my eye such beautiful things

but his human friend is looking like he may have been through a bit of a hard time as well

Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over gouache rendering The entries are numbered toThis 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