Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal which one has to look

which one has to look closely to notice

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

who I think may have been responsible for the beginning section in where are a series  of neatly transcribed poems about seashells and spring days

absent the six

Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal which one has to lookA charmer of a tiny box, and certainly a very old one, carved of pine with a fantastic patina now, and found with a handful of old ink pen nibs inside. It looks, at least to me, that the box (excepting the sliding lid) was carved from one piece of wood, but due to a split along one edge a couple of tiny nails were added as reinforcement. Though there's been a bit more minor splitting since, but it's held up well, as the slide top slides easily and