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"

and then these thin trails of lines surrounding them like a soft cloud

perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

4" t x 2" wide and deep and in very good condition

with a measure mark on one side

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