Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine nest which seem perhaps to have

which seem perhaps to have related to "beads" mentioned later in the notebook

with paint loss/rust along the bottom edge as evident

with beautiful age to the white paint

and like the combination of sort of Santa Claus looking bearded face with wonderfully detailed uniform

Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine nest which seem perhaps to haveI found this one at a wonderful antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA and am quite smitten with it, for the yellow of the paint and especially for the deep red fruit punctuating the rich green vine running across the lid. Just right, and I love how the "berries" at either end are cut in half, as if to mark the edges, while the full at center marks the spot. Very charming, and quite a useful box for holding all sorts of things. With a painted over