Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat and because I think everyone

and because I think everyone should have a set--or many

trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and Jean Paul Laurens and exhibited at the salon of French artists

and tactile to boot

periwinkle blue-gray paint with silver trim

No burnt ends

Super Sweet Antique Primitive Book Shaped Pencil Box with Wire Hinges old folk art cat and because I think everyoneI really love this old box, I presume made for holding writing implements. It looks like a tall and narrow book to me, with the short sides slightly recessed from the long sides so as to look like pages. With its original wired hinges, and a wire loop that comes up through a cut in the wood of the top to meet a small brass hook. Nice bleeding around the forged iron nails, and a well worn woven green fabric lining. First half 19th c. I'd think, and