Very Lovely Early Tole Painted Box with Carrying Loop antique diamond pips but overall good condition and

but overall good condition and stable

Very very good/excellent condition

sometimes with a horse race game inside

yielding a mix of letters and numbers and symbols that

looks very much like a wrestler or strong man to me

Very Lovely Early Tole Painted Box with Carrying Loop antique diamond pips but overall good condition andIt's no great surprise that the more one looks at things and compares them, the more attuned one is to the differences among them and what makes one example feel more special than another. It's not until fairly recently that I really started appreciating antique toleware, and really paying attention to the decorative painting on pieces like this, which can be quite stunning in both bold and subtle ways. I find this a very beautiful example, New