The creamy white paint (especially those arched windows) against unpainted wood and green roof on this church completely do it for me
but imagine it would shine up some if desired
I believe this box is Meiji period Japanese
this piece by Andersen Design Studio
retrieved by a fabulous woman named Verna
June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA vintage color-aid standard set The creamy white paint (especiallyWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase