Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs fraternal order emblem but all the better for

but all the better for it

And super fun to play

which would be held tight inside when the slide door is closed

where it would swing and rattle in the breeze like a wind chime

Very Old Hand-carved Slide Top Pine Box with Pen Nibs fraternal order emblem but all the better forA charmer of a tiny box, and certainly a very old one, carved of pine with a fantastic patina now, and found with a handful of old ink pen nibs inside. It looks, at least to me, that the box (excepting the sliding lid) was carved from one piece of wood, but due to a split along one edge a couple of tiny nails were added as reinforcement. Though there's been a bit more minor splitting since, but it's held up well, as the slide top slides easily and