Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo "Described as an interesting

"Described as an interesting

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

leaning against one another with a space between them

Or just treat it as a beautiful object

but they’re still so beautiful

Elegant Antique Spruce Gum Box with Top and Bottom Slide Openings cisakulo "Described as an interestingThere 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