For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase I just can't resist these

I just can't resist these old floral watercolors

Thibet:  5" x 5 7/16"

13 3/4 l x 5 w x 11 1/8" t

strap long enough to wear cross-body

For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase I just can't resist theseFound in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved