Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found portrait Sliding open the lid of

Sliding open the lid of this box to find it filled with these old bone gaming chips was

and it appears that there were probably once more wooden crosses in the windows--now just appearing in the front right window

reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870

This one made me laugh

Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found portrait Sliding open the lid ofSuper sweet. I've had one or two old Dennison brand office sets boxes inside of boxes meant to provide everything one might need for sending a letter of a package, say from paper tags to air mail labels and everything in between. This wooden lap desk is like the humbly homemade version of one of these, especially as found, packed with paper tags and air mail labels indeed plus pins and chalk and binder clips and marking pencils, etc. With jointed