Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo which are now lost (though

which are now lost (though their leather harnesses remain and are fully in tact)

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

but they’re still so beautiful

news of having been "out in the shower" (caught in the rain I assume) the other night

leaning against one another with a space between them

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo which are now lost (thoughThere are fancier spruce gum boxes out there, but I think this plain one, found in Maine, is as lovely as they come. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books as they were typically shaped like books, as this one is, were usually made from a solid piece of wood, as this one was, with a sliding opening at top and sometimes at bottom as well, as is the case here. Now highly collectible, these were made