Lovely, and Useful, Antique Writing Box / Writing Slope miniature saw perhaps once part of a

perhaps once part of a set of fireplace tools

homely pair

dinner table or bedside table filled with winter greens and berries

but with turtles

and those wonderful little wings

Lovely, and Useful, Antique Writing Box / Writing Slope miniature saw perhaps once part of aI first picked up this box (on a recent real world antiquing exhibition) just for its lovely exterior, but was happy to open it to discover it's a writing box, with a nice red velvet covered writing slope inside, which lifts to reveal compartments beneath it on either side, and a little drawer with recesses at bottom, too. I'd never actually sat down and used one of these before, but in fact is it both super useful and quite a pleasure, and in absence