Book Shaped Old Carved Spruce Gum Box Keramik "Keep your promise"

"Keep your promise"

giving a great sense of immediacy to it as a memorial of sorts

crisp and bright

perfectly complementing the rest and adding up a truly gorgeous and unusual piece

so all the better with lots of pins stuck in it

Book Shaped Old Carved Spruce Gum Box Keramik "Keep your promise"It makes perfect sense that I would have found this one in Maine tagged as a "mystery box" but in fact a spruce gum box. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually made from a solid piece of wood, as this one was, with a sliding opening at bottom. These were made by lumberman, typically as gifts for loved ones, most dating from 1850 1920, after which improved transportation allowed them to