SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle 13 3/4" x 13 3/4"

13 3/4" x 13 3/4"

with the splint itself painted gold in those areas

It takes some effort to get all of the white balls into the tiny holes atop it

perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

while the sifting area is woven of a finely twisted natural fiber the same color just a shade darker than the grass

SOLD Henrietta Work's Very Wonderful Work! Mid 19th C. Box with Painted Interior Lid and Drawer carved wooden toggle 13 3/4" x 13 3/4"Pure love for this box, one of those things that just had to be mine, and which I'll be glad to live with for the rest of my life. And I like it all the more for its humble exterior which does little suggest the rich joys of its interior life! Likely painted when Henrietta was just a school girl, proudly spelling out her full name in block letters between rainbow like arcs of color (and what an excellent name, seeming also to describe her efforts here