Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red which takes a strong pull

which takes a strong pull to open

and an especially empathetic one for a friend with writer's block

and decidedly modern

and a couple of  minor stains to the surface of the checkerboard area

Antique Blue Painted Trunk Side with Yellow Bird on Branch gold and red which takes a strong pullMy general philosophy is to buy things whose sheer existence makes me happy, which is certainly the case with this, surely once the side of a trunk, iron handle still in place, and which someone cared enough to salvage. The red breasted yellow bird on branch of what looks a bit like bleeding hearts gives me all the pleasure of a fraktur watercolor, with the wavy yellow border and then dovetailed edges of the panel making the perfect frame! Plus that