Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal I love the pencil drawn

I love the pencil drawn faces on this older looking couple

I haven't been able to determine whether these were only distributed at the fair  or part of a larger release

I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets

absent the six

Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal I love the pencil drawnA charmer of a tiny box, and certainly a very old one, carved of pine with a fantastic patina now, and found with a handful of old ink pen nibs inside. It looks, at least to me, that the box (excepting the sliding lid) was carved from one piece of wood, but due to a split along one edge a couple of tiny nails were added as reinforcement. Though there's been a bit more minor splitting since, but it's held up well, as the slide top slides easily and