Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box turtle ornament This is about the most

This is about the most refined and beautifully made brush I've come across

Such a pretty pair

it is marked Erphilia

and I think the polka dot and striped patterns

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box turtle ornament This is about the mostWell, 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,