Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey super tender and just completely

super tender and just completely lovely

on a desk for paperclips

as documented in photos) is mounted to a sheet behind it on which appears the artist’s signature

It's a great object to hold and use

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey super tender and just completelyWell, what a box! And what a curiosity! (I'm just sorry these photos do no justice to its great warm patina and wonderful, weighty presence.) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem, MA) to his publisher in 1851 or "Part Five" of it, specifically. The box itself, with these fantastic fat dovetailed corners, I do believe is at very least that old,