Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint frog mug It is in good condition

It is in good condition

and handy for holding pins and needles

and though I have not been able to find out much about it

possibly while he was a grad student

I find this second grader's drawing from 1945 really pretty touching--I'd guess created while his father was on leave from WWII

Great Old Swivel Top Wooden Pencil Box with Original Paint frog mug It is in good conditionThere is something so satisfying to me about old handmade wooden boxes that close alone an angled edge like this. This one, with the lid held on by one simple nail, I am pretty certain dates to the late 1800s. It still bears some of its original red paint (which reads orange), as well as pencil marks all over! Much of that pencil appears to be scribbles, but I can at least make out "Millie" on one side, "Nicky" on the bottom, and a "Yo" on one short