Small Hand-crafted Old Wooden Wall Shelf for Tiny Curios Japanese dragon It measures 3ʺ in diameter

It measures 3ʺ in diameter and 4

and there is still some treatment left in the bottle

with turned wooden handle that screws off

to be Raymond - and drawn many stars

The leather top has lost some of its stitching

Small Hand-crafted Old Wooden Wall Shelf for Tiny Curios Japanese dragon It measures 3ʺ in diameterWhat a curious little shelf this is, stamped on the back as having been made by Ebenezer Averill Boxworks. I've done some digging and have found a few Ebenezer Averill's from these parts from the 18th and 19th centuries, but have not found any citations of a Boxworks, so am not quite sure of the age of this piece, though I might guess late 19th early 20th c. I'm also not quite sure what is was made for perhaps for spools of thread and thimbles? It