Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer used to hold them up

used to hold them up and make them dance

so best left untrimmed and floated in frame

Just a wonderful old carving from a piece of burl wood

6 3/8" x 2" x 1 5/8" t

The box measures 6" long x 3 1/4" wide and each walnut measures 1 5/8"long x 1 3/8" wide x 5/8" tall

Wonderful Antique Handpainted Treen Pencil Shaped Pencil Box (With Early Pencil, As Found) antique boxer used to hold them upI love an old pencil box and really love this one, 19th century I believe, found in Maine and with a very old pencil found inside of it. This is much better in hand, with the paint decorated body of the turned wooden pencil box just gorgeous, a swirly mix of white and blue and brown, and some gold paint gilding still hanging on to the end cap. And the shape of its tip, with squared end, really completes it for me. It looks perhaps like there is an