Very Wonderful 19th Century Paint Decorated Treen Book Box with Slide Opening, Signed Mark Bailey antique boxed blocks especially "Build with thy icy

especially "Build with thy icy hand tombs for the dead

I am completely taken with these four men in marvelously patterned caps and suits

is actually one of my favorite recent finds

4 1/4” t x 1 1/8” w x 1 3/4” d and in very good condition

and which I am also quite sure is of the type described commonly as "Chinesco" (the term was inspired by the unintended similarity of the faces on these figurines to the Chinese

Very Wonderful 19th Century Paint Decorated Treen Book Box with Slide Opening, Signed Mark Bailey antique boxed blocks especially "Build with thy icyA rare find and a real beauty, found in upstate NY. This is a small, paint decorated, folk art book shaped box, carved from one piece of wood, with a slide opening on the long side. It feels close kin to a spruce gum box, but the slide on those is typically on one short end, and they tend to be a bit larger and this feels to me a bit earlier, c. 1840s I believe. With this gorgeous wide band of rich mustard paint across the near top of the spine for