Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large sculpture like these

like these

shows some of the original paint still hanging on where it would least have been handled--a wonderful yellow on the top of the rockers

I think it is possible that this lovely treen box is a snuff box

There was once wide green ribbon sewn across the backside

Both beautifully aged and rusted

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large sculpture like theseI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A