Keystone Mills Ten Pound Wooden Cinnamon Crate with Original Label brutalist wooden sculpture I love its clunkiness

I love its clunkiness

though I do think it is fairly old and might date to around the same time (1929)

painted black

At two and a half inches across

Keystone Mills Ten Pound Wooden Cinnamon Crate with Original Label brutalist wooden sculpture I love its clunkinessSuch a fantastic box! Or crate, really made to hold 10 pounds of imported cinnamon. It features its original label, with fabulous inset portrait of what appears to be an Egyptian woman set against a landscape complete with camel, natives with shields, palm trees and stone columns fitting in that the use of cinnamon is believed by most to have originated in Egypt, used as early as 2000 B. C. The adjacent side of the box is painted with stenciled black