Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over folk art paper weaving with one rough edge from

with one rough edge from where it was removed from the ledger

and will send them

with one tear and a bit of fading to the label

from "Bringing Up Father" an American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus

I don’t think it gets much more 1980s than this fabulous deco-esque black

Sweet Old Hand-carved Pencil Box with Wound String and Initials All Over folk art paper weaving with one rough edge fromThis May was for me a Brimfield of gathering many little things which, if not the most profitable things to buy and sell, are of course the things that usually give me the most pleasure. This sweet old pencil box is a perfect example, humble as can be, but teeming with love and life and history. Hand carved, much worn, with names and monograms carved penciled into top and bottom, and then with this striped string threaded and wound around one end of