Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat No burnt ends

No burnt ends

trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and Jean Paul Laurens and exhibited at the salon of French artists

and making opening the mail feel a little more festive

and tactile to boot

” who then (I bet it was him) crayoned numbers and letters onto all sides

Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat No burnt endsI really love this old box, I presume made for holding writing implements. It looks like a tall and narrow book to me, with the short sides slightly recessed from the long sides so as to look like pages. With its original wired hinges, and a wire loop that comes up through a cut in the wood of the top to meet a small brass hook. Nice bleeding around the forged iron nails, and a well worn woven green fabric lining. First half 19th c. I'd think, and