Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box which is the perfect size

which is the perfect size and shape to fill with everything from daffodils to lilac to peonies and more

and then a turned and threaded handle

" forming a gear that still turns

features an elegant relief design in shades of silver

with copper shield and woolen tunic

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box which is the perfect sizeWell, what a box! And what a curiosity! (I'm just sorry these photos do no justice to its great warm patina and wonderful, weighty presence.) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem, MA) to his publisher in 1851 or "Part Five" of it, specifically. The box itself, with these fantastic fat dovetailed corners, I do believe is at very least that old,