SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin old wood (But the paper cut in

(But the paper cut in front of the painterly--almost Rothko-esque--pink paper is pretty good too

is just lovely thing--both as lovingly carved and constructed folk art object and as a sort of iconic symbol of lounging

Porter (active 1810-1830)

I think the red and creamy tan color combo of the box is super

with original silvery-white painted decoration more pronounced on the left side but equally satisfying at right where it combines with the red orange of rust and whatever else

SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin old wood (But the paper cut inFound 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