Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss playing card vesta I can just picture a

I can just picture a Christmas window display at the old B Altman's on Fifth Avenue (c

and 1940s at the latest

There is also hook on the back for hanging

a few other marks and scrapes

but it is stamped "Made in Japan" on its bell

Wonderful Painted Pine Folk Art House (Tea Caddy?) with Roof Loss playing card vesta I can just picture aThis wonderful house shaped box has lost the overhang of its roof on the back side and has a small loss on the front side too, but I loved it way way too much to leave it behind. With that roof hinged on the left side and a latch on the other, I believe most likely it was made to function as a tea caddy (there are some very fine 19th c example of tea caddies in the form of houses). Painted the perfect yellow with curtained windows and some greenery