SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) collectible dominoes and looking as if he's

and looking as if he's taken a few knocks to the end of his nose

with a Rube Goldberg illustration of marching drummer

as they put an awfully lot of work into the carving of the cover

its existence in bronze certainly makes it feel like an art object (2 objects really) and I really love these rows of waving hands

these sorts of baskets were only produced when plants were at  the right stage of maturation

SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) collectible dominoes and looking as if he'sI'm always happy when I bring home a spruce gum box they've gotten so precious I most often just have to admire them and let them go and of course anything with inlaid heart or star, or both, on it too! (And what a fabulous star here especially.) Kin to sailor's valentines and knotwork baskets, spruce gum boxes (also called gum books as they were primarily shaped like books) were made by loggers far from home to bring home to sweethearts and loved