19th Century Grain Painted Tin Painter's Box folk art aninal especially for the shoe industry

especially for the shoe industry

brass shoe and boot silhouettes of this ilk were a Victorian era thing in Great Britain

6 1/4" t x 3" diameter at base

along the right edge when the paper wore

On the underside of the lid is written the name of their onetime owner Shirley Mae Barron and the year 1958

19th Century Grain Painted Tin Painter's Box folk art aninal especially for the shoe industryFound on the same day as the antique paint pigments I just listed, it seemed the universe was telling something, plus just nice to have grain painting and artist paint box combined in one. And quite a handsome looking box I think, with cartouche shape to the red and black grain painting on the lid, and then more of it on the sides. Inside, four open compartments two small, two larger and lid that lifts to a larger one. Found as pictured, with two old