Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering early 20th century Chinese cinnabar box with with small dings to

with with small dings to the silver here and there

Signed AD on the bottom

Carve marks all over

all in good shape

and driven by the immediacy of wanting to play

Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering early 20th century Chinese cinnabar box with with small dings toMy guess is that this was the ice fishing tackle box of a boy of 13 or so who was also very into baseball, giving the "g" at the end of "Fishing" a very baseball uniform logo esque tail. The "ice" on the top, which makes me think of block ice and early Diary Queen and the like, is pretty fabulous too. I'm not sure if the third word on the lid is meant to read "gon'fishing" or is a last name, but either way this makes me purely happy. Plus three