Old Hand Soldered Copper Lidded Case pine carving but this is the first

but this is the first of these Signal Card pocket books I've found

There is some unevenness to the surface coloration

Aside from the crustiness

Some loss at the very top

so I've divided them into suits

Old Hand Soldered Copper Lidded Case pine carving but this is the firstI don't know the origins of this one, crafted of copper with hand soldered seams, but it's clearly got age to it, and I think is quite beautiful. A trench art match safe, or case for a tool? Whatever the case, a singular thing, useful now for all sorts of things, flammable or not. I especially like the right angled incision in the copper that runs across one side, evincing a patch, though it does not seem to go all the way through. Nice weight, nice