Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found portrait with the carved divets on

with the carved divets on the slide lid dictating the starting position for the first two rows of letters

Sliding open the lid of this box to find it filled with these old bone gaming chips was

to test and serve as reference for the specific colors produced by a spectrum of glazes

reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870

with a very kind and gentle little face to boot

Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found portrait with the carved divets onSuper sweet. I've had one or two old Dennison brand office sets boxes inside of boxes meant to provide everything one might need for sending a letter of a package, say from paper tags to air mail labels and everything in between. This wooden lap desk is like the humbly homemade version of one of these, especially as found, packed with paper tags and air mail labels indeed plus pins and chalk and binder clips and marking pencils, etc. With jointed