Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over folk art paper weaving The scalloped edge of the

The scalloped edge of the creamy white painted handle really does it for me

I'd never seen a pocket knife carved entirely of wood

from "Bringing Up Father" an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus

which would make sense with the blackening of the surface around it

Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over folk art paper weaving The scalloped edge of theThis May was for me a Brimfield of gathering many little things which, if not the most profitable things to buy and sell, are of course the things that usually give me the most pleasure. This sweet old pencil box is a perfect example, humble as can be, but teeming with love and life and history. Hand carved, much worn, with names and monograms carved penciled into top and bottom, and then with this striped string threaded and wound around one end of