Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey and it actually seems to

and it actually seems to glow

Another wonderful box

circa 1940

It's a great object to hold and use

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box donkey and it actually seems toWell, 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,