Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) brown rabbit with stripes on the figure

with stripes on the figure suggestive of a soccer (football) player

A bit hard to photograph as they absorb all the light

When my dealer friend in Maine

some aging to the exterior surface as documented

late 19th/early 20th I believe

Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) brown rabbit with stripes on the figureOne more antique spruce gum box from a group of three I purchased from a dealer in Nashville, but which likely originated in Maine or Canada. And this one, though with a few losses to the square corners, and a replaced slide lid that doesn't fit tightly, is in many ways the beauty of the group, carved of truly gorgeous burl wood. I think the oldest too, late ish 19th I would guess. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes,