Very Lovely Early Tole Painted Box with Carrying Loop antique diamond pips and quintessentially Arts & Crafts

and quintessentially Arts & Crafts triangle-shaped cutouts with slightly rounded corners along the front

yielding a mix of letters and numbers and symbols that

sometimes with a horse race game inside

wood is 13/16” thick

I'd use this for coffee as well as tea

Very Lovely Early Tole Painted Box with Carrying Loop antique diamond pips and quintessentially Arts & CraftsIt's no great surprise that the more one looks at things and compares them, the more attuned one is to the differences among them and what makes one example feel more special than another. It's not until fairly recently that I really started appreciating antique toleware, and really paying attention to the decorative painting on pieces like this, which can be quite stunning in both bold and subtle ways. I find this a very beautiful example, New