Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting gouache and graphite on paper

gouache and graphite on paper I believe

and to my eye it's just formally perfect

and really love the very unequivocal if-then declaration delivered here with golden sparkle

almost all pages filled both front and back

1837)—the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel

Excellent Old Painted Wood Nesting / Stacking Box Set with Jointed Corners, Beautifully Aged interior painting gouache and graphite on paperI am forever searching for these hard to find, it's a very happy day when I do, and whenever I list a set they are usually the first thing sold. The paint and the wear is important though the paint on earlier sets like this softens and wears away, rather than chips off I'll never buy a set where the latter is the case! It is possible this set once included a larger red box, but there's five now, with the orange the largest. Jointed corners, great