Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection 5% voted in favor of

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I would think based on the color litho lid that these came at least a few decades later (the 4 rows of stars on the flag would suggest pre-1848

As I tried to do some research into the history of railroad signals in order to date--and to fully understand

I purchased it from a dealer in my neck of the woods

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection 5% voted in favor ofThis 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