Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster Holds: 11 1/8" x 8

Holds: 11 1/8" x 8 3/4"

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

I found it in Maine but might guess it originated in or near Buffalo

) I especially love the fact that many of those messages are the opposite of saccharine

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

Painted Bentwood Pantry Box with Beautiful Old Nail Mends black rooster Holds: 11 1/8" x 8Another 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