SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) yorkshire dated August 1858 and with

dated August 1858 and with a view of what looks to me to be "Cass Castle" but I'm not entirely sure about the Cass

onto which the one above it snugly stacks

I did not hesitate

and a merman/mermaid of sorts etched into the surface just below

to fall in love with

SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) yorkshire dated August 1858 and withI'm always happy when I bring home a spruce gum box they've gotten so precious I most often just have to admire them and let them go and of course anything with inlaid heart or star, or both, on it too! (And what a fabulous star here especially.) Kin to sailor's valentines and knotwork baskets, spruce gum boxes (also called gum books as they were primarily shaped like books) were made by loggers far from home to bring home to sweethearts and loved