Charming Vintage Painted Wooden Box with Shenandoah Valley Style Decoration brick no looseness or wobbling

no looseness or wobbling

) Payson's indelible ink was invented by pharmacist John Payson Williston in Northampton

I purchased this and a second leather covered notebook from the same old school antique shop in New Hampshire

though they do pretty well as bottle stoppers too

seeming to possess a definite Dolly-ness (or vice verse

Charming Vintage Painted Wooden Box with Shenandoah Valley Style Decoration brick no looseness or wobblingI would guess maybe 1940s on this box but I am not completely certain. I love it for the hand painted decoration, which I think might be best described as Shenandoah Valley in style, somewhat in the manner of Johannes Spitler (1774 1837). What do I know, I just think it is lovely, and the bright yellow interior, too. Carefully hand painted, with some aging to the paint for sure, and I especially love the two intersectiing blooms at center, like