Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo Toning and staining to the

Toning and staining to the front cover and some staining to first inside page

26" x 20" x 7/8" and in very good

A triangle block measures 1 3/8" on each short side and 2 1/16" on the hypotenuse

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo Toning and staining to theThere 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