Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label still life on canvas And I really could look

And I really could look at that little row of four wonderfully distinct trees on the cliff at left all day

a handful of them a little loose

at least a hundred years after its making

and often several of them together

I'm a sucker for a beautiful knife/utensil tray

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label still life on canvas And I really could lookThis was a week for boxes, and this I think is my favorite of all of them large, with very satisfying proportions, super fat dovetailed corners, brass hardware, and an early American Express paper shipping label still adhered to the top. I believe this would have been used as a hat box, perhaps military. American Express was founded in 1850 as a freight shipping and express mail dispatcher, with this label dating to the 1890s or so I believe. Just