SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display and romantic

and romantic

and among the first iterations of the jig saw puzzle

these were dyed and may once have been a brighter yellow

The first charcoal portraits date to the 1860s

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SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display and romanticFound at a crazy old antique junk shop in central MA on my way back from Brimfield (where it might have been sitting for years) and listed exactly as I found it. Handpainted monogram FHB in excellent silver lettering on the lid of painter's box,and the box with a patent date of what looks to me to read 1884. Happily with this great old wooden palette still inside, which slides into a front opening compartment or can be laid flat on top the tray