Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box cream especially kills me

especially kills me

but am far from an expert

PRICE is per carving

Very very good/excellent condition

but quite evocative things I think

Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box cream especially kills meThis is quite an old box, I believe earlyish 19th c. if not older, and quite a wonderful one I think, carved out from one piece of wood, with a great deal of effort invested in decorative carving on the long sides cross hatching on one and a more complex pattern of chip carving on the other. I love the raised pull end of the slide lid, which looks rather like a pillow at the head of a bed, with a piece of iron stretched over the top looking rather