Found at a crazy old antique/junk shop in central MA on my way back from Brimfield (where it might have been sitting for years) and listed exactly as I found it. Handpainted monogram FHB in excellent silver lettering on the lid of painter's box,and the box with a patent date of what looks to me to read 1884. Happily with this great old wooden palette still inside, which slides into a front opening compartment or can be laid flat on top the tray inside, plus a variety of old brushes, an early Milton Bradley watercolor tin, empty of paints. and an unused square of "Gihon's Opaque." I'm not a painted but I find these old painter's boxes such romantic things, especially when found as if put away and left untouched for 100 years or so. And the palette here is one very worthy of hanging on the wall.
13 5/8" x 9 3/4" not including handle x 3 1/8" t. The lid of the box is not attached by hinges, but fits over the lip of the bottom half, pretty much flush but would not stay on if one were to carry this by the handle (nothing is holding it on.) The front short sides of the box flips out, which is where I found the palette stored. Altogether much used as evident, which for me is a good bit of the appeal.
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