Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges mahogany painters palette Jones first carved miniature figures

Jones first carved miniature figures and animals from the local yellow poplar

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Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges mahogany painters palette Jones first carved miniature figuresI really love this old box, I presume made for holding writing implements. It looks like a tall and narrow book to me, with the short sides slightly recessed from the long sides so as to look like pages. With its original wired hinges, and a wire loop that comes up through a cut in the wood of the top to meet a small brass hook. Nice bleeding around the forged iron nails, and a well worn woven green fabric lining. First half 19th c. I'd think, and