1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed old painted finial but it is really fantastic

but it is really fantastic and I've tired

Colors on a few are a bit elusive and  some of the paper has shine

Simultaneously earthy and cheerful

which feature my favorite figures of all at the center of their undersides

but reads very clearly as a skull

1903 Hand-Painted Bentwood Stringholder Box With Seascape, Signed old painted finial but it is really fantasticA sweet small thing, made as a gift by an Emma to someone in 1903, as a message on the underside tells us, and she initialed the seascape painted on top EMW. I love the softness of the painting, which feels quite transportive to me, and is perfectly complemented by the green on the sides of the box, which lend it a bit more pop. Executed in watercolor, with a ball of gray wool string still inside, which pulls out easily through the tiny hole at the