An interesting George Rowney & Co Ltd “Artists Water Colour Box”. It is a rare example, Japanned black metal with a sliding lid which unfolds to form a palette with thumb hole. The details of the stationers are on the front of the lid and on the reverse there is the original paper label. This particular box was retailed in Switzerland by Gebruger Scholl (Scholl Brothers); they were Stationery Specialists at Poststrasse 3, Zurich. There are photos on line of Winston Churchill, England’s Minister of War, was an amateur painter and he visited the stationers to buy art supplies in 1946. It measures 23 cm x 9.7 cm x 3 cm deep. The base of the box has spaces for 15 tubes of paint and a compartment for brushes. It is in good condition with any wear in keeping with age and use; scratches and some light tarnishing here and there; a patch of surface rust on the palette where blue paint was left for a very long time. Please scroll through all the photographs as they form an important part of the description. Thank you for viewing my listing.