Amos J. Blake's Lovely 1892 Copper Rivets Box (With Contents!) miniature shoe form board is 5/8" thick

board is 5/8" thick

" and the fact that he seems to have had a pretty rough life pulls at my heart strings even more

closed 8 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 3/4"

This one is signed Dorlisa (or possibly Dorlida) Lyons (appropriately) and I think it honors its predecessors quite nicely

Amos J. Blake's Lovely 1892 Copper Rivets Box (With Contents!) miniature shoe form board is 5/8" thickIt's the lovely handwritten paper label on the side of this box that sold me on it, but the box itself, made I believe of walnut, is itself very lovely, and inside are, indeed, a whole bunch of antique copper rivets and some other bits besides. I found these in New Hampshire and have found a definitely record for the Amos J. Blake (1836 1925) that they belonged to: a prominent attorney of Rindge, NH, whose home in nearby Fitzwilliam has since been