Great Old Handmade Wooden Caddy With Nails Six Compartments plate with whales but I think they're fun

but I think they're fun

Pencil and watercolor on natural colored construction paper

I believe this is Chinese and dates from the 1950s or so

with minor bumps/flagging to the bottom corners

It is for sale as I found it--with a  double matte (tan over white) and in a wooden frame painted silver with black speckles

Great Old Handmade Wooden Caddy With Nails Six Compartments plate with whales but I think they're funI love this old thing, which would be perfect for organizing and hauling around pens and pencils and crayons and paintbrushes and whatever else one might need to stash. I think it was in a similar fashion for many years, with some splotches of paint on one side and a little inside as well. I love all of the rows of old nails holding it together at the corners and joining the interior separators to the exterior such a warm and to my eye super