C. 1880s Spice Box with Hand-lettered--and Spice Filled!--Tin Canisters painted wooden animal This is a great large

This is a great large Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a clear glass vase

Or for delivering a motivational morning tonic

but rarely come across one I love as much as this large one

With a little research I've found a few other examples

plus the great shape of that back foot

C. 1880s Spice Box with Hand-lettered--and Spice Filled!--Tin Canisters painted wooden animal This is a great largeI purchased this in Pennsylvania, from a dealer specializing in 19th century stoneware bottles and crocks but from whom I've purchased a few other sorts of treasures. What really sold me was the beautiful hand painted gold lettering on the spice boxes in that best font. Only later did I discover that those boxes were still full of spices, a happy surprise! The cloves box is clearly filled with cloves indeed, but I'm not entirely sure what mix of dried