Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings butterfly this the second I am

this the second I am listing by Horatio Crane (October 26

in what appears to be pencil on the back

I know it is hard to feel scale in photos

1 7/8" t x 1 1/2" x 5/8" and in very good condition

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings butterfly this the second I amThere are fancier spruce gum boxes out there, but I think this plain one, found in Maine, is as lovely as they come. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books as they were typically shaped like books, as this one is, were usually made from a solid piece of wood, as this one was, with a sliding opening at top and sometimes at bottom as well, as is the case here. Now highly collectible, these were made