SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display these were dyed and may

these were dyed and may once have been a brighter yellow

no tears or losses

and mid-century modern abstraction

and advising sticking dowels in the oven for a couple of minutes if they have expanded--which I would indeed do

flowers and vines painted in dark green and gold on the top-- looking vlike just the sort of antique school girl drawing I'd jump on immediately

SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display these were dyed and mayFound at a crazy old antique junk shop in central MA on my way back from Brimfield (where it might have been sitting for years) and listed exactly as I found it. Handpainted monogram FHB in excellent silver lettering on the lid of painter's box,and the box with a patent date of what looks to me to read 1884. Happily with this great old wooden palette still inside, which slides into a front opening compartment or can be laid flat on top the tray