Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box just amazed by the fineness

just amazed by the fineness of their incised decoration

really) totally does it for me

with some sun fading and a little wear to bottom/bottom corner of the slipcase

with both arms down

and in great structural shape

Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box just amazed by the finenessId 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