Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box " forming a gear that

" forming a gear that still turns

) The whole thing fits perfectly over one's head and face

and I don't believe it's design could be improved upon at all

and then a turned and threaded handle

Antique Primitve Wooden Slide Top "House of Seven Gables" Box antique Burmese lacquer box " forming a gear thatWell, what a box! And what a curiosity! (I'm just sorry these photos do no justice to its great warm patina and wonderful, weighty presence.) I like to think this is the box in which Nathaniel Hawthorne delivered the handwritten manuscript for "House of the Seven Gables" (based in Salem, MA) to his publisher in 1851 or "Part Five" of it, specifically. The box itself, with these fantastic fat dovetailed corners, I do believe is at very least that old,