Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique medicine from what I understand these

from what I understand these sorts of lined sewing baskets were made for the tourist market during the late Victorian era

"Godey’s Ladies" references “Godey’s Lady’s Book

on heavy weight paper

I think these earrings (while difficult to photograph) are fantastic

features a stylized white and taupe bird against a blue ground

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique medicine from what I understand theseWell, 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,