Early American Watch Box with Original Paint and Bone Inlay bolero (I have found a few

(I have found a few other examples featuring pencil written names like this

and some flyaway hairs

which are both familiar in format but also tell us much about the times: "If 100 men besieged in a town

All of this adds up to one of my very favorite finds of late

8 3/4”x5 1/8” x 3 1/2”

Early American Watch Box with Original Paint and Bone Inlay bolero (I have found a fewI believe this wall box was made to hold a pocket watch, and I believe is is quite an old one, early 19th century be my guess. The inlays on the front are bone, the brown paint original, carved wooden pins for nails I believe and it looks to me as if there is at least one small carved bone pin used (visible in a hole at the top (documented in detail photo.) I really love the way just the top half of the front slides up and off for access to the