Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection with light soiling and a

with light soiling and a little bumping to the corners especially upper right

Another beautiful set of construction pencils

As I tried to do some research into the history of railroad signals in order to date--and to fully understand

and have had an eye out for another ever since

The fleur de lis at center makes me think perhaps Caroline was Canadian

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection with light soiling and aThis 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