Colorful Set of Five Handmade Pennsylvania Painted Nesting Boxes odd fellows key dates to the 1840s or

dates to the 1840s or so

and setting them proudly before H

1850s New England I believe

There is a strong Inuit tradition of carving human and owl faces from whale vertebrae

executed in ink (black

Colorful Set of Five Handmade Pennsylvania Painted Nesting Boxes odd fellows key dates to the 1840s orI am forever looking for colorful old staking nesting boxes like these, but only very very rarely do I find them. This set was handmade, and I bought from a seller in Lancaster County, PA, which I would bet is where they originated some 100 years ago or so. There's some paint loss here and there and the yellow box is pretty dinged (with some slightly off shade touch ups made at some point), but they look fantastic displayed in all sorts of ways, and