Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label still life on canvas a handful of them a

a handful of them a little loose

I'm a sucker for a beautiful knife/utensil tray

and often several of them together

15 5/8" w x 9 5/8" d x 5 3/4" t and in very good

at least a hundred years after its making

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label still life on canvas a handful of them aThis was a week for boxes, and this I think is my favorite of all of them large, with very satisfying proportions, super fat dovetailed corners, brass hardware, and an early American Express paper shipping label still adhered to the top. I believe this would have been used as a hat box, perhaps military. American Express was founded in 1850 as a freight shipping and express mail dispatcher, with this label dating to the 1890s or so I believe. Just