Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends writing book " and best of all

" and best of all "special

The yellow paint on it is really glorious

so the second set with red eye balls was painted to do the trick

Box is very structurally sound with no losses

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends writing book " and best of allAnother example of mends making something much more special. This is an antique oyster painted pantry box (no lid), to my eye made very beautiful by the nail repairs to the splits along the bottom long ago, which have the effect of calling attention to the sweeping lines of those splits, and giving a sense of gesture and movement to the whole thing. On the flip side are nails marching up the front, but it is the otherwise spare mended side (with