SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) collectible dominoes these sorts of baskets were

these sorts of baskets were only produced when plants were at  the right stage of maturation

I find him very smile inducing

as a polio survivor

and looking as if he's taken a few knocks to the end of his nose

He is well attached to his base

SOLD 19th Century Book Shaped Spruce Gum Box with wonderful Inlays and Chip Carving (No Slide) collectible dominoes these sorts of baskets wereI'm always happy when I bring home a spruce gum box they've gotten so precious I most often just have to admire them and let them go and of course anything with inlaid heart or star, or both, on it too! (And what a fabulous star here especially.) Kin to sailor's valentines and knotwork baskets, spruce gum boxes (also called gum books as they were primarily shaped like books) were made by loggers far from home to bring home to sweethearts and loved