1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed vintage toy candlestick phone and stuffed with sawdust

and stuffed with sawdust

There is some wear/aging to the paint on the blocks and a bit of splitting to the surface of the wood here and there

each 9 3/4” x 7 3/4”

I am sure they were a WW2 effort

1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed vintage toy candlestick phone and stuffed with sawdustA sweet small thing, made as a gift by an Emma to someone in 1903, as a message on the underside tells us, and she initialed the seascape painted on top EMW. I love the softness of the painting, which feels quite transportive to me, and is perfectly complemented by the green on the sides of the box, which lend it a bit more pop. Executed in watercolor, with a ball of gray wool string still inside, which pulls out easily through the tiny hole at the