Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity Sewn of linen fabric with

Sewn of linen fabric with an embroidered face

I have no idea

It's old and has definitely been knocked around

I must say that since first seeing it

making them look at if they could be put to use in a duel

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity Sewn of linen fabric withThis was a week for boxes, and this I think is my favorite of all of them large, with very satisfying proportions, super fat dovetailed corners, brass hardware, and an early American Express paper shipping label still adhered to the top. I believe this would have been used as a hat box, perhaps military. American Express was founded in 1850 as a freight shipping and express mail dispatcher, with this label dating to the 1890s or so I believe. Just