These are the things it makes me think about anyway
much more finely carved (and very precious) examples of these out there
This is lovely vintage slide top box with dovetailed corners and a reddish stain
they have a darker stain starting about a third of the way down the handles
1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo These are the things itI only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,