Best Graphics Pair of Scarce c. 1940s Dixon Paperex Pencil Boxes, Red and Black, Partially Full hand-drawing valentines blues and greens

blues and greens

is easily perched on a stand or stick or post

I've found a very close match of this lovely small lacquer string holder that describes it (with some authority) as English Victorian-era Chinoiserie

and which made me think this could be adapted for all sorts of creative uses--i

Best Graphics Pair of Scarce c. 1940s Dixon Paperex Pencil Boxes, Red and Black, Partially Full hand-drawing valentines blues and greensSuch great graphics on these boxes, I didn't too much care if there were any "Paperex"pencils inside but happily there are, six black and eight red. With the five different colors in which they were made listed on one side of the box, which opens at the middle, and Paperex scrolled across the other side, in the color of the enclosed pancils. More commonly known as China markers or grease pencils, these are useful for marking all sorts of hard