Unfinished carved spruce gum box, M.A.B
This unfinished chip carved box is constructed like a spruce gum box, but larger. Like other spruce gum books, it is carved from a solid piece of wood, with slide openings at both ends; the bottom sealed with wood pegs. The front cover is decorated with the owner’s or maker’s initials, M.A.B. and a large Maltese cross. The entire box is covered in deeply carved repeating diamond and triangular patterning.
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