Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) folk art phone rather poignant

rather poignant

but now structurally sound and fairly sturdy

which included both fabulous figurative carvings (mostly people

Each measures 10 1/8" x 7"

I'm especially partial to the  bat (name on reverse side) and hedgehog here

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) folk art phone rather poignantI love an old pencil box and really love this one, 19th century I believe, found in Maine and with a very old pencil found inside of it. This is much better in hand, with the paint decorated body of the turned wooden pencil box just gorgeous, a swirly mix of white and blue and brown, and some gold paint gilding still hanging on to the end cap. And the shape of its tip, with squared end, really completes it for me. It looks perhaps like there is an