Sweet Small Handmade Box with Stitched In Presumed Stamp Roll Holder miter tool 3 7/16" t x 2

3 7/16" t x 2 1/2" w

As Herman Hesse wrote in the introduction to this edition (in translation):

with a framed cross carved into both faces of it to define it as a bible

but rather more about the everyday kindness and gentleness  of this particular

and glued back together again

Sweet Small Handmade Box with Stitched In Presumed Stamp Roll Holder miter tool 3 7/16" t x 2A curious little box, which I believe was was to hold a roll of stamps on one side and a pen in the other. (Nothing on it opens or closes, and I can't figure out another purpose it would have served.) Rolls of stamps were first issued in 1908, and I would think this dates to not much after that. I love the rows of tiny stitches on either side of the open section, holding the piece of curved blue card in place to the walls of the box, and how the whole