Sweet Little Antique Book Shaped Secret Opening Box with Inlaid Bird photo of insect including perhaps the year

including perhaps the year

and so they always feel to me a bit Hitchcock Rear Window-esque

I found these in downeast Maine the other day and just thought they were really beautiful

Some darkening and surface wear as evident

Not a bad device for counting the weeks of the year--then taking 51 and 52 as vacation

Sweet Little Antique Book Shaped Secret Opening Box with Inlaid Bird photo of insect including perhaps the yearI've had one other book shaped box constructed like this little one, that one also from Pennsylvania. The spine here slides a nudge and then pops off, revealing two brass screws on the side of the box that slide into the grooves of the brass plate on the spine piece to hold it all together. (All as shown in later photos). Once that spine is removed, one can open the slide lid of on the back side of the box to stash one's tiny treasures in what feels