Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings butterfly I might have thought from

I might have thought from the shape of this that it this was a knitting stick or sheath

and who is perhaps best known for photographing Mary Todd Lincoln in mourning attire in 1865 as well as John Wilkes Booth

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in what appears to be pencil on the back

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings butterfly I might have thought fromThere 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