Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster Beautiful vintage condition

Beautiful vintage condition

43 1/2" x 11/16" wide and deep

and most especially for them having taking the care to correct a not quite right first attempt at the "e" in Goffsehalk

then In 1875 moved to Chicago to take charge of Armour & Co

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster Beautiful vintage conditionAnother example of mends making something much more special. This is an antique oyster painted pantry box (no lid), to my eye made very beautiful by the nail repairs to the splits along the bottom long ago, which have the effect of calling attention to the sweeping lines of those splits, and giving a sense of gesture and movement to the whole thing. On the flip side are nails marching up the front, but it is the otherwise spare mended side (with