Antique 8 Inch Bentwood Pantry Box with Original Dry Wood Patina art history made in Japan circa 1940s

made in Japan circa 1940s

giving the flowers a strange

which I have left alone but could be cleaned up with a couple of snips

with a few spots and stains and one loose seam at the neck

and I really love that all of the pieces are shaped like tools (specifically intended to represent farm tools from what I’ve read

Antique 8 Inch Bentwood Pantry Box with Original Dry Wood Patina art history made in Japan circa 1940sIm not a connoisseur of antique pantry boxes, but I do look at them a lot, and occasionally one calls to meand I try to listen if the price tag is not prohibitive, which it most of the time is! This one, 19th century New England I believe, I like for the bleed of the iron nails down the front, and for the warm dry wood patina all over. Also there is what looks to me like a drawing on the underside of the lid, which, though I could be seeing things,