Old Hand-Painted First Aid Box with Carved Lettering Too antique wooden tool From a distance

From a distance

an old and pretty rare one

which I also think is pretty genius: of course one wants to see inside a piggy bank to watch one's nickels and dimes accumulating

with some small scattered stains

Old Hand-Painted First Aid Box with Carved Lettering Too antique wooden tool From a distanceNot the first great old First Aid box I've come across, but definitely one of my favorites, and with this terrific hand painted lettering over old gray paint seeming to have covered some even earlier, very crudely carved lettering which definitely spells out PLANES and I believe AMERICA below that, and the name Jim Kelley at lower left with planes again and USA. Plus some other letters it's a bit hard to decipher. I'd guess this one saw wartime, but