When I was young I would go to my Great Grandfathers house. My Great Grandmother having long since passed , no one else lived in that big old two story home but him. He stayed,for the most part,in his big old kitchen. The kitchen stove,coal or wood burning,was used for cooking and heating. The bath was directly off the kitchen. He had a very high bed in one corner. I still remember that bed because it was so high up and covered with heavy wool blankets almost military like. Guess that is because there was no woman to add her touch.
His home was filled with objects collected over the generations that had lived here. This home was once Great Grandmothers childhood home so at the time I would go there it was on its fourth generation of inhabitants.I often wandered throughout the place looking at things. Every so often a particular object would pique my interest and I just had to ask about it. I found this medium sized box. It had a wooden frame that held all the sides together. All the sides,except for the base,were pierced tin. One side could be opened and inside was a plain tin box almost the same size. A handle was fixed for carrying. A most curious object !
I wondered what its use could have been. Grabbing it up I took it to Gramp.thats’ what I always called him.