Just for Fun... #46: Boxes in my Blood...

Mike,
At least you KNOW where you got your penchant for boxes now!
Boxes are in your blood ;-)
Ellen

-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Mike,

I think you may have just uncovered a here-to-for unknown gene. We’ll name after you “Mikaconous Boxodici”!!

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Your secret is out of the box now..

-- Drink twice... and don't bother to cut... @ larrysworkshop.wordpress.com For lovers of all things timber...

Mike,
I can prove now that you are much into a newer generation of genes of your loveones in the boxmaking. Imagine those beautiful boxes that were handed to you … by just looking at it, the mark in your blood seems to be endless heritage.

One thing very special on above boxes are the hinges…. that is your mark too. Yours currently on wooden ones and that is very peculiar from your blood.

God bless,

-- Bert

what a wonderful
and rich heritage

and that they have survived this long
evidence of the importance
your family placed in these simple treasures

so what type of blood
do you ask for
at the hospital

a oak positive
ab maple
o cherry

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Great post Mike.
Your family heritage has wood in the blood for sure.

-- Eric

Looks like you’re boxed in!

-- Steve - Impatience is Expensive

While it is nice to have learned of this family intererest in boxes, let’s not diminish something you said Mike…they bought them. You make them and vive la difference! You have upped the family ante big time. Thanks for sharing this with us.

-- On the eighth day God was back in His woodworking shop! Lenny, East Providence, RI

Wow to get to see those boxes gets me thinking of the boxes in my life too. My Dad had one that had a duck on the top for a handle and it was positioned as to be flying out of the water! I’ll never forget it as well as pondering over the treasures that he kept for many decades. Thanks for bringing back some memories!

-- $tudie

I like the treasre chest and the pencil boxes the best….

It’s a very cool find. I come from a family of throw awayers,

no treasures left for me to find.

-- Bob Kenosha Wi.

Mike, what a great wee collection

Some inspiration as well

jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thanks everyone for your interest and comments…
Except for the pencil boxes, which were in my Parent’s house for many years, I had no idea that any of these even existed!! I was picking through cardboard boxes, looking for anything interesting or valuable, when I found them… and they were all “EUREKA!” moments to me as I found one after another…
I’d, at least, like to think that my ancestors would have appreciated some of my small efforts…

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

Hi Mike. those are some real neat old boxes. I think a box that would make a nice gift is a wood box for you eyeglasses. That could be made really neat and engraved to make it personal. Someone gave me that Idea when they saw my grease box and thought it was an eyeglass box. Thanks for showing these to us and have a great day!!!!!!!!!............Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

beautyfull Box´s Mike and with a nice historic to them :-)
make some small notes and put into to them of what you know about them
maybee one from the next generation will preciate them as much as you do :-)

thank´s for sharing
Dennis

Those are some nice boxes, what a nice find.