1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed minnie mouse figurine stapled along seams on the

stapled along seams on the sides and top

with a bit of light cracking and loss of paint in a few areas

and featuring wonderful gold borders and tiny gold dots art the center of each black dot

made of paper with jointed wooden arms and legs

1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed minnie mouse figurine stapled along seams on theA sweet small thing, made as a gift by an Emma to someone in 1903, as a message on the underside tells us, and she initialed the seascape painted on top EMW. I love the softness of the painting, which feels quite transportive to me, and is perfectly complemented by the green on the sides of the box, which lend it a bit more pop. Executed in watercolor, with a ball of gray wool string still inside, which pulls out easily through the tiny hole at the