Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity It's old and has definitely

It's old and has definitely been knocked around

The back side is painted in the same manner as the front

I must say that since first seeing it

a little wear to the dark wood on the exterior sides of the tray (I have not touched it

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity It's old and has definitelyThis 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