Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings vintage Asian plate >>one (the one with animals

>>one (the one with animals on the cover) features about 12 full pages of lovely penmanship practice along with a few pages with just one line at the top

5" tall x  5" wide x 4" deep

so this one sold me immediately

Visible image size: 11 5/8" x 13 3/16"

and her working in a shop

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings vintage Asian plate >>one (the one with animalsThere are fancier spruce gum boxes out there, but I think this plain one, found in Maine, is as lovely as they come. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books as they were typically shaped like books, as this one is, were usually made from a solid piece of wood, as this one was, with a sliding opening at top and sometimes at bottom as well, as is the case here. Now highly collectible, these were made