Small Hand-crafted Old Wooden Wall Shelf for Tiny Curios box with lion rose and yellow glaze

rose and yellow glaze

along the handle and

along with several other beautiful Burmese boxes

printed by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in the 20s-early 30s (last copyright is 1903)

Small Hand-crafted Old Wooden Wall Shelf for Tiny Curios box with lion rose and yellow glazeWhat a curious little shelf this is, stamped on the back as having been made by Ebenezer Averill Boxworks. I've done some digging and have found a few Ebenezer Averill's from these parts from the 18th and 19th centuries, but have not found any citations of a Boxworks, so am not quite sure of the age of this piece, though I might guess late 19th early 20th c. I'm also not quite sure what is was made for perhaps for spools of thread and thimbles? It