I'm a sucker for a beautiful knife/utensil tray
at least a hundred years after its making
and often several of them together
And I really could look at that little row of four wonderfully distinct trees on the cliff at left all day
and snatched it up just as fast as it could without even reading the description
Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label still life on canvas I'm a sucker for aThis was a week for boxes, and this I think is my favorite of all of them large, with very satisfying proportions, super fat dovetailed corners, brass hardware, and an early American Express paper shipping label still adhered to the top. I believe this would have been used as a hat box, perhaps military. American Express was founded in 1850 as a freight shipping and express mail dispatcher, with this label dating to the 1890s or so I believe. Just