Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes bathing beauty bottle very sturdy vintage condition

very sturdy  vintage condition

“Prattware” refers to the underglaze polychrome printing process

which I know very little about

constructed over the base of a broken glass or candlestick

both as an object

Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes bathing beauty bottle very sturdy vintage conditionA number of boxes this week that won my heart in one way or another, this very much one of them. Super patina, nice long size and shape, white cloth label turning one corner telling us it once held large and medium wood drills, small files and screw drivers. And then small holes drilled into the top and sides in a semi regular pattern putting the drills to trial, I presume, while also evoking a sense that this could also have been put to use as a bait