Antique Painter's Travel Box with Palette and Latching Compartments founding father MA last week

MA last week

I believe the super smooth pink stone is soapstone and would guess it dates to the first quarter of the 20th century or so

Certainly its maker took quite a lot of care

who I believe was Ethel Johnt (b

and I've not come across one before

Antique Painter's Travel Box with Palette and Latching Compartments founding father MA last weekI really love these old painter's boxes, especially those still holding their original palettes, and will always scoop them up when I find them. C. 1870s, clearly well used, with all of its original components (less the paints and pots and brushes that would have been acquired to fill it.) The lid of the rear section pulls up to reveal grooves for tubes of paint or charcoals pastels, and the front section's top tray (meant for holding brushes) lifts