Gorgeous Old Jointed Crate in Best Blue-Gray Paint with Handwritten Cloth Label, "Terminal Strips" red mouth A mix of graphite

A mix of graphite

book (Bible I assume) held in lovely long fingers

with lush cobalt blue hand-painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze

I've been on the lookout

1950--but none with this fantastic aqua glaze

Gorgeous Old Jointed Crate in Best Blue-Gray Paint with Handwritten Cloth Label, "Terminal Strips" red mouth A mix of graphiteA beautiful old wooden crate, with jointed corners, painted the most perfect dark blue gray shade, and bearing an old cloth label that tells us it once housed "Terminal Strips" which I believe would relate to electronics, perhaps radios. I find the ends of the cloth label as they wrap around the corners, white against the blue gray, just gorgeous. And the interior is painted too. Clean inside and great turned upside down to use as a pedestal for other