New Puritan Lead etched wooden box I found this wonderful box

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

I found this handsome wood duck in Southern Maine

and a few lost stitches around her neck

I've got a real soft spot for inlaid folk art wooden boxes like this one

New Puritan Lead etched wooden box I found this wonderful boxSomething in the combination of text and material just spoke to me when I found these blocks of New Puritan Lead the other day in Maine, weighing in at about 8 pounds. It seems somehow rather poignant that "Puritan" and lead should be linked, perhaps as if to signify the heavy weight of the puritanical in many senses. And the font on the text seems perfectly right, declarative and unwavering. (A little bit Jenny Holzer esque too.) To my sensibilities,