Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection versatile vase

versatile vase

There is a layer of foam core visible from the back holding it tightly in the frame

The fleur de lis at center makes me think perhaps Caroline was Canadian

I purchased it from a dealer in my neck of the woods

Another beautiful set of construction pencils

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection versatile vaseThis 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