1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed old painted finial but it is really fantastic

but it is really fantastic and I've tired

Since 1987 she has been based in Corrales

wearing their original paint in a terrific palette

8 1/4" t x 5 3/16" in diameter

Someone then screwed a couple of cabinet handles to the back bottom as spacer/bumpers

1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed old painted finial but it is really fantasticA 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