Old Painted Slide Top Box with Mountain, Trees, and Bunch of 19th C. Letters Inside vintage modernist jewelry starting with “0 cence” =

starting with “0 cence” = “nonsense” at the top of the page

with its graphic black cut-out appearance

It is initialed LR on the bottom and dated '74

with a truly wonderful patina and a nice sturdiness and weight for its size

with a really terrific

Old Painted Slide Top Box with Mountain, Trees, and Bunch of 19th C. Letters Inside vintage modernist jewelry starting with “0 cence” =The mountain dotted with trees and crescent moon in blue sky painted on one side of it is what drew me to this old box, but the paint on the rest of it, and especially the stack of handwritten correspondence inside dating back to the 1850s, sealed the deal! More about the letters below, but first the box, I'd guess painted early 1900s so. The mountain and trees are a bit dark, clearly meant to be a moonlight view, but are very readable, as is a second