Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer Just a wonderful old carving

Just a wonderful old carving from a piece of burl wood

6 3/8" x 2" x 1 5/8" t

with the garland motif looking to have been applied using a stencil and sponged type painting

the other looks to have once been backed with black satin

all to the good in my opinion

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer Just a wonderful old carvingI love an old pencil box and really love this one, 19th century I believe, found in Maine and with a very old pencil found inside of it. This is much better in hand, with the paint decorated body of the turned wooden pencil box just gorgeous, a swirly mix of white and blue and brown, and some gold paint gilding still hanging on to the end cap. And the shape of its tip, with squared end, really completes it for me. It looks perhaps like there is an