Pens and Pencils, Antique French Lacquer Divided Interior Snap Lid Box with Gold Lettering pre-Columbian woman as if this girl were

as if this girl were radiating inner light

The faces on the cats are

--was painted on a very old wooden panel

and I'll send this close match along with it

(What the men are up to I'm not quite sure

Pens and Pencils, Antique French Lacquer Divided Interior Snap Lid Box with Gold Lettering pre-Columbian woman as if this girl wereYou likely know by now I've got a great love of pencil boxes to me embodying the idea of arriving prepared (pencils sharp!), and ready to get to work. (I'm a rare one who usually looked forward to the first day of school!) This lovely black lacquered papier mache "pens and pencils" box, with continuous hinge along the back and gold lettering, is I believe French; I had a very similar one several years ago reading "Plumes et Crayons." Mid to third