Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) folk art doorstop but with an excellent house

but with an excellent house and tree in among them too

Nice objects for the desk or table

5 1/2 wide  x 3 1/2 deep x 2 3/4" tall

But I do hope he got extra credit for his terrific drawing

Looking rather as if about to speak some secrets of the universe

Antique Carved Burl Wood Spruce Gum Box (Small Corner Losses and Replaced Slide Lid) folk art doorstop but with an excellent houseOne more antique spruce gum box from a group of three I purchased from a dealer in Nashville, but which likely originated in Maine or Canada. And this one, though with a few losses to the square corners, and a replaced slide lid that doesn't fit tightly, is in many ways the beauty of the group, carved of truly gorgeous burl wood. I think the oldest too, late ish 19th I would guess. Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes,