Fine Vintage Japanese Watercolor/ Ink Pigment Sticks Set playing card box and many years of use

and many years of use left in it

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

I've seen a fair number of vintage "sewing birds" around--handy things

Much aged but I think all the better for it

and other along the left portion of the horizontal fold line

Fine Vintage Japanese Watercolor/ Ink Pigment Sticks Set playing card box and many years of useYum! These make me happy just to look at, so pretty. When I found them, I thought they were pastels or wax crayons, but they are in fact pure pigment watercolor sticks, which one can directly apply a wet brush to, or break into pieces to use in a pan. In Japan these are used for watercolor painting, sumi e painting, etc. Very long lasting (from what I understand, each stick is equivalent to 3 4 watercolor pans), and from what I've found online, sets