For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box dexterity puzzle door that swings open

door that swings open

eyes wide open

one tear at lower left

nicely aged condition

safe from harm

For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box dexterity puzzle door that swings openFound in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved