Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box men boxing with the benefit of a

with the benefit of a nice handle for moving it around and setting it down

Small loss to left edge and some scatted dark spots/stains to the left of his head

Approx 48 inches long x 5 1/4" wide

Beautifully carved of what I believe is a green soapstone

making one nostalgic for the nearly lost art of sign painting--and also for the prices of yesteryear

Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box men boxing with the benefit of aI'm a complete sucker for things like this, which I feel it is my calling to rescue and appreciate whether or not anyone else does. It's a (very) homemade box, I think the work of a young Horace Chase, who signed his name to one side of it, and then Stanley Chase, his younger brother I presume, took it over and signed his name to the lid, and another side, and then started in on a third. Perfectly wonky, and very sweet; feels like the sort of box in