L'Odyssee d'Homere, 1785, French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Paper handmade converse sneaker What especially makes it for

What especially makes it for me is all that carved crosshatching

One of my very favorite carvings I've had

PA (there is a much faded label on his back)

roughly contemporary to Kosarek) which

L'Odyssee d'Homere, 1785, French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Paper handmade converse sneaker What especially makes it forI really love antique French book boxes, with a large section of pages adhered and carved out to create a secret compartment for stashing secret things. I don't come across them often but had been actively looking for one (seems to me now is a useful time to get a chunk of emergency cash out of the bank and stash it somewhere safe) when I found this one in a great antiques shop near Albany. And its a great one, in beautiful condition, and with very