Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection As I tried to do

As I tried to do some research into the history of railroad signals in order to date--and to fully understand

versatile vase

Still many good years of use left in it

Another beautiful set of construction pencils

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label spoon collection As I tried to doThis 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