Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box Really a terrific gift

Really a terrific gift

no notable warping to the wood

It’s the orange hand-painted SOCKETS on the lid that drew me to this old socket wrench set

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

Pieces measure about 4 3/8” long

Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box Really a terrific giftId like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters, and that its owner carved a second alphabet into the lid to make it extra special. Really, I have no idea how it came to be, but I sure love it, with the carved divets on the slide lid dictating the starting position for the first two rows of letters, and pointing at them like arrows. Then one longer spanning the whole lenght, leaving just a lonely YZ