Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box What a fabulous armadillo

What a fabulous armadillo

This copper glazed large ceramic vase by Andersen Design Studio of Boothbay

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Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box What a fabulous armadilloWell, 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,