Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box homemade book Three of them are carved

Three of them are carved with crosshatching at the wide end so would have been used as wax seals

I at least find animals with a few wounds all the more empathetic

it is composed of matchsticks: burned at their tips

but it looks like the nails were removed at some point at the strips were glued (though there is no glue showing

this is just about a perfect thing

Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box homemade book Three of them are carvedThis is quite an old box, I believe earlyish 19th c. if not older, and quite a wonderful one I think, carved out from one piece of wood, with a great deal of effort invested in decorative carving on the long sides cross hatching on one and a more complex pattern of chip carving on the other. I love the raised pull end of the slide lid, which looks rather like a pillow at the head of a bed, with a piece of iron stretched over the top looking rather