Lidded Handmade Wooden Box with Inlaid Mother of Pearl Heart orange lacquer box with the care and skill

with the care and skill of their maker palpable

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Ernst Lorenzen was a forester/naturalist from Denmark and Alma an Acadian from Cocagne

11" corner to corner

Lidded Handmade Wooden Box with Inlaid Mother of Pearl Heart orange lacquer box with the care and skillI found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation. In the basement was the husband's woodshop, loaded with old tools and equipment, and I would guess (or at least I like to imagine!) this box was made down there as a present to his wife. It certainly smacks of love and care, and I especially love the inlaid mother of pearl not quite symmetrical heart. The lid features a very