Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church and another monogram

and another monogram

14 1/2" diameter x 2 3/4" tall

though also nice just on the shelf

This terrific old striped wooden horn makes a great sound

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church and another monogramI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had