Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 for the sewing room but no other of this

but no other of this particular one at all

12" x 10 1/8" framed

but it's an unusual one

For me it's a lot about their silhouettes

This little boot definitely has many years on it and shows some age

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 for the sewing room but no other of thisI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had