Gorgeously Crusty Antique Primitive Clock Box/Watch Hutch with Slide Side antique Japanese porcleain The thumb press is surrounded

The thumb press is surrounded by a sort of gray canvas material that is still both pliable and completely sound without holes or cracks

' published in 1862 and with a revised printing in 1872--but that does not seem to be the precise source

aged and worn just right

The trailer hitches on securely and the wheels roll along just fine

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

Gorgeously Crusty Antique Primitive Clock Box/Watch Hutch with Slide Side antique Japanese porcleain The thumb press is surroundedI find something very satisfying about the form of an old hanging clock watch hutch like this (at least I believe that it what this is) kind of like a bee box, or a bird house, and kind of like an alter, and kind of like a mystery box into which one would reach one's hand to feel around in the dark, but there's just a void! Usually I resist but I found this one extra good, for the super crusty painted surface for sure, and rusty iron nails, too, and