Red Painted Homemade Wall Mounting Twelve Drawer Hardware Chest giveaway cards 1870s or so--is so finely

1870s or so--is so finely done

I think the contents vary a bit

which I’m sure once part of a larger set

I believe late 19th or very early century and for sure a very finely made

Signed at lower right with what looks like Wm Ritter

Red Painted Homemade Wall Mounting Twelve Drawer Hardware Chest giveaway cards 1870s or so--is so finelyThe combination of red painted wooden frame and silver tin drawers arranged in a neat grid on this little wallhanging hardware chest really does it for me, sweetly homemade and also smart looking and with a handy shelf at top for the miscellaneous! The handles on the face of the drawers were soldered on, and most of them were lined in paper that looks to have been salvaged from anti freeze packaging. Good for organizing screws and nails or any sort of