Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique lacquer snuff box bottle caps alone provided the

bottle caps alone provided the raw material for all sorts of wonderful things

and love his little cap and crossed ankles dangling under the table

7 7/8" in diameter x 4 7/8" tall

And this is

Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique lacquer snuff box bottle caps alone provided theId like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters, and that its owner carved a second alphabet into the lid to make it extra special. Really, I have no idea how it came to be, but I sure love it, with the carved divets on the slide lid dictating the starting position for the first two rows of letters, and pointing at them like arrows. Then one longer spanning the whole lenght, leaving just a lonely YZ