Very Sweet Antique Carved Out Box in Red Paint with Slide Lid shoe polish stain and another piece of glass

and another piece of glass laid atop it inside the gold foil

and which I don't think detract

12 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 3 7/8”

I believe at least the darker wood is walnut

who acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and on Broadway

Very Sweet Antique Carved Out Box in Red Paint with Slide Lid shoe polish stain and another piece of glassI really love an old carved out wooden box. Feels so visceral and direct, not messing around with jointed corners, just digging out the inside. And this old one with a sweet little carved knob at the end of the sliding lid. Could be that the unpainted pine lid replaced an earlier one, but if so has been with it for a very long time, lovingly done and perfectly fitting. Perhaps made to hold slate pencils, but good for whatever little odds and ends now,