Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss northeastern basket but so great still

but so great still

at the end)—was likely an early draft of a teaching notebook

and Boston is not the same

” is one of my very favorites

to who it is attributed on the back of the frame (with the first and second names reversed) noting that he was born in 1876 in Seneca

Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss northeastern basket but so great stillThis wonderful house shaped box has lost the overhang of its roof on the back side and has a small loss on the front side too, but I loved it way way too much to leave it behind. With that roof hinged on the left side and a latch on the other, I believe most likely it was made to function as a tea caddy (there are some very fine 19th c example of tea caddies in the form of houses). Painted the perfect yellow with curtained windows and some greenery