Very Old Wooden "E" Box with Blue Paper Remnants and Fat Hand-forged Nails woman with egg basket letter stencils

letter stencils

which also shows some red marks

with very little wear to the lacquer

and how to beat Richard's big hand-drawn green letters

It would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawings—dated 1876—if it were buried in a stack

Very Old Wooden "E" Box with Blue Paper Remnants and Fat Hand-forged Nails woman with egg basket letter stencilsA curious one, ideally suited for one whose first or last name starts with the letter "E", though I could also be convinced it's an "F"! In any case, it's a super old one, held together with these gorgeous, unevenly placed super fat hand forged iron nails. I guess the brilliant blue bits of paper hanging on to the surface are remnants of some sort of label, or maybe wallpaper, that once covered it, though I'm not entirely sure how this shadow of a