SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display Its shape is that of

Its shape is that of a ginger jar

but the mount a pre-printed postcard (first decade 1900s I believe

The first charcoal portraits date to the 1860s

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SOLD 1880s Monogrammed Tin Painter's Box with Palette, Brushes, and Watercolor Tin butcher store display Its shape is that ofFound at a crazy old antique junk shop in central MA on my way back from Brimfield (where it might have been sitting for years) and listed exactly as I found it. Handpainted monogram FHB in excellent silver lettering on the lid of painter's box,and the box with a patent date of what looks to me to read 1884. Happily with this great old wooden palette still inside, which slides into a front opening compartment or can be laid flat on top the tray