Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes taco silver overlay bottle Name/initials carved into the underside

Name/initials carved into the underside but a bit difficult to tho decipher

4 yards available

This is an old wood--I think perhaps beech--and forged iron spokeshave

but one looking to me as if bearing the ghosty image of a face (not so much as if the subject of the original photo

6 3/4" x 3 1/4" in pristine condition

Highly Empathetic Old Homemade Wooden Box with Curious Joints and Many Drill Holes taco silver overlay bottle Name/initials carved into the undersideA number of boxes this week that won my heart in one way or another, this very much one of them. Super patina, nice long size and shape, white cloth label turning one corner telling us it once held large and medium wood drills, small files and screw drivers. And then small holes drilled into the top and sides in a semi regular pattern putting the drills to trial, I presume, while also evoking a sense that this could also have been put to use as a bait