Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal and think its slumpy

and think its slumpy

I haven't been able to determine whether these were only distributed at the fair  or part of a larger release

but upon spotting this one on a recent outing I found it so beautiful

A perfect little planter

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal and think its slumpyA charmer of a tiny box, and certainly a very old one, carved of pine with a fantastic patina now, and found with a handful of old ink pen nibs inside. It looks, at least to me, that the box (excepting the sliding lid) was carved from one piece of wood, but due to a split along one edge a couple of tiny nails were added as reinforcement. Though there's been a bit more minor splitting since, but it's held up well, as the slide top slides easily and