Sweet Little Antique Book Shaped Secret Opening Box with Inlaid Bird photo of insect and pyrography kits were sold

and pyrography kits were sold through various mail-order sources including the Sears catalog and advertisements in women’s magazines

including perhaps the year

the more one finds packed in to each of them

So all together

Sweet Little Antique Book Shaped Secret Opening Box with Inlaid Bird photo of insect and pyrography kits were soldI've had one other book shaped box constructed like this little one, that one also from Pennsylvania. The spine here slides a nudge and then pops off, revealing two brass screws on the side of the box that slide into the grooves of the brass plate on the spine piece to hold it all together. (All as shown in later photos). Once that spine is removed, one can open the slide lid of on the back side of the box to stash one's tiny treasures in what feels