Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church Made of steel I believe

Made of steel I believe

14 1/2" diameter x 2 3/4" tall

The frame is in good condition

with wear and aging to the paint as there should be and a few stains here and there

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church Made of steel I believeI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had