Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey It's a great object to

It's a great object to hold and use

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

to be used as drinking cups

circa 1940

and it actually seems to glow

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey It's a great object toWell, 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,