Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal I never cease to be

I never cease to be amazed by the laborious precision of antique Scherenschnitte designs like these

I've become a huge fan of Northeast Coast Native American baskets

and think its slumpy

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

who I think may have been responsible for the beginning section in where are a series  of neatly transcribed poems about seashells and spring days

Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs ideal I never cease to beA charmer of a tiny box, and certainly a very old one, carved of pine with a fantastic patina now, and found with a handful of old ink pen nibs inside. It looks, at least to me, that the box (excepting the sliding lid) was carved from one piece of wood, but due to a split along one edge a couple of tiny nails were added as reinforcement. Though there's been a bit more minor splitting since, but it's held up well, as the slide top slides easily and