Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) brown rabbit which would have been used

which would have been used to mount them onto pages

Stable and not shedding or especially fragile

this I believe would once have been the vertical piece of a lightening rod

A bit hard to photograph as they absorb all the light

Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) brown rabbit which would have been usedOne more antique spruce gum box from a group of three I purchased from a dealer in Nashville, but which likely originated in Maine or Canada. And this one, though with a few losses to the square corners, and a replaced slide lid that doesn't fit tightly, is in many ways the beauty of the group, carved of truly gorgeous burl wood. I think the oldest too, late ish 19th I would guess. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes,