Curious Small Logger Made (?) Painted Box with Newspaper Photo Inside toy bear most of them pretty fussy

most of them pretty fussy

and on and around the bottom of the basket (as well as peeking through in a few spots through the woven sweetgrass) have been dyed red

with one end tucking into the other where they meet at the center of one side

This one begins with a Spencerian  calligraphy drawing of a swan on the first inside page

I don't spend a ton of time looking at jewelry

Curious Small Logger Made (?) Painted Box with Newspaper Photo Inside toy bear most of them pretty fussyA curious one, at least to me. Found in Upstate New York, my guess is that with the faux tree stumps and knotty, grained wood decoration on the exterior, and newspaper photo inset into the underside of the lid is that is was made by a logger, who, I'd guess, was working at the the site pictured in the clipped and carefully framed photo. And, I would guess, like a spruce gum box, it was likely as a gift for a sweetheart back at home, with the silver