Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity produced by The Cincinnati Game

produced by The Cincinnati Game Company for educational purposes

It's old and has definitely been knocked around

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

Of a similar ilk to the black cat I just listed

Antique Travel / Hat Box with Fat Dovetail Joints, Brass Handle, Paper AmEx Label handmade curiosity produced by The Cincinnati GameThis 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