Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box Framed: 19" x 14 3/4"

Framed: 19" x 14 3/4"

no notable warping to the wood

He measures 9 1/8" tall

really) totally does it for me

and in great structural shape

Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique shell art box Framed: 19" x 14 3/4"Id like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters, and that its owner carved a second alphabet into the lid to make it extra special. Really, I have no idea how it came to be, but I sure love it, with the carved divets on the slide lid dictating the starting position for the first two rows of letters, and pointing at them like arrows. Then one longer spanning the whole lenght, leaving just a lonely YZ