Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering movement located just a few steps

located just a few steps from historic Faneuil Hall

The thick impasto enhances a sense of drama

and definitely imparting a feeling of the miraculous

3 3/4" l x approx 2 1/4" in diameter

adopting the Red Cross as its logo at the Geneva Convention that year

Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering movement located just a few stepsMy guess is that this was the ice fishing tackle box of a boy of 13 or so who was also very into baseball, giving the "g" at the end of "Fishing" a very baseball uniform logo esque tail. The "ice" on the top, which makes me think of block ice and early Diary Queen and the like, is pretty fabulous too. I'm not sure if the third word on the lid is meant to read "gon'fishing" or is a last name, but either way this makes me purely happy. Plus three