Antique Gravel Covered, Wire Hinged Folk Art Box with Original Green and Red Painted Interior folk art bell And while I have mostly

And while I have mostly photographed it outside the frame

here completed facing due east

which speaks lot to the times they were done

and with its tail then equally satisfyingly knocking against the plate in the opposite direction

One of my favorite Brimfield finds

Antique Gravel Covered, Wire Hinged Folk Art Box with Original Green and Red Painted Interior folk art bell And while I have mostlyI really love this one. I seem to recall seeing a box or two covered like this in what I only know to describe as a sort of fine gravel, but I don't know when that was a thing to do. Whether that surface is original to the box or applied a bit later I am not sure, but the bottom of the box shows much softened original green paint, and I am pretty certain the green and red painted interior are of the same age, original to it, as are the wire hinges all