1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed minnie mouse figurine with a printed double window

with a printed double window glued on top

There is a vertical fold to the cover and a few pages

with a bit of light cracking and loss of paint in a few areas

where many memorable things happened

stapled along seams on the sides and top

1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed minnie mouse figurine with a printed double windowA sweet small thing, made as a gift by an Emma to someone in 1903, as a message on the underside tells us, and she initialed the seascape painted on top EMW. I love the softness of the painting, which feels quite transportive to me, and is perfectly complemented by the green on the sides of the box, which lend it a bit more pop. Executed in watercolor, with a ball of gray wool string still inside, which pulls out easily through the tiny hole at the