Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings but since it was already

but since it was already apart I thought I'd list my favorite

Made of stained hardwood with a nice grain to it  (one of these days I will learn how to better identify woods

but no notable tears or major stains

and I think in ink and I might guess crayon

Early 19th Century Hand-carved Slide Lid Box in Glorious, Joyful Original Paint mid-century drawings but since it was alreadyI do have a weakness for boxes, but even more so a weakness for glorious paint, and no way could I look at the painted decoration on this box and not need to have it near me, for a little while or forever! How joyful those stripes and curlicues like trains of smoke running up the sides against that gorgeous bittersweet ground, and then these diamond shaped fields of white dots on the slide lid, like abstracted clouds, and also feeling kin to early