Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) victorian hand I find wallpaper band boxes

I find wallpaper band boxes

I spotted this one from 50 feet away perched in the back corner of a tent at Brimfield and it seemed as though it had just been waiting for me

I have found one other out there done in a very similar manner listed at $1800 and described as dating to the 1700’s

8 1/8" t x 7/8" w and d and in very good condition

and the "snacs" [snakes] hatching and then fully grown

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) victorian hand I find wallpaper band boxesI 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