Nice Old Portable Lap Desk / Writing Box maine native basket so one could I guess

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

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

Victorian I believe

) and beautiful production (that gold

) on the bottom: Sunday

Nice Old Portable Lap Desk / Writing Box maine native basket so one could I guessI 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