SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) antique erzgebirge perfectly aged color

perfectly aged color

and found refuge in a gap in the gorge he was walking through

and I’d guess were once two of a dinner set

or perhaps it will sail on by

And then the back showing the form as pieced together from bits of old letters with the crepe paper wrapped around from the front and secured over top

SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) antique erzgebirge perfectly aged colorI'm always happy when I bring home a spruce gum box they've gotten so precious I most often just have to admire them and let them go and of course anything with inlaid heart or star, or both, on it too! (And what a fabulous star here especially.) Kin to sailor's valentines and knotwork baskets, spruce gum boxes (also called gum books as they were primarily shaped like books) were made by loggers far from home to bring home to sweethearts and loved