Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church as if a drawing of

as if a drawing of a drawing hung from a nail

a bit of minor roughness/loss to the bottom edge of the copper plate

and another monogram

I believe this piece is specifically by Wilhelm Kagel Jr

The end of the handle is wrapped in leather

Howard's Very Sweet Homemade Pencil Box, 1864 wooden folk art church as if a drawing ofI've got a special weakness for old pencil boxes like antique school slates, the wooden frames of which often bear the carved initials of their onetime owners, so do pencil boxes tend to carry the traces of their users in a wonderfully intimate way. Which is very much the case with this very primitive one, found in Upstate New York, with HA emphatically carved into the face of the top, and then Howard, in cursive, inside, twice. And happily Howard had