Nice Old Portable Lap Desk / Writing Box maine native basket The larger piece is a

The larger piece is a footed plate and the smaller is a shallow bowl

and just loved it for how mid-century it feels and for its almost manic quality

like a workbook to be taken out into the forest--and indeed

so one could I guess use it as a cap gun yet

Nice Old Portable Lap Desk / Writing Box maine native basket The larger piece is aI find these old lap desks such satisfying things, with compartments underneath the velvet covered writing slope in which one might keep writing paper as well as tuck a stack of correspondence received, and then a few pens under the lid with handle at one end all ready to take anywhere. Makes me want to write old fashioned letters. Or maybe just to throw all of ones bills inside! This one no longer locks, so maybe best not to keep secret love letters