Two graduated hand-dovetailed drawers. The drawer interiors, as well as the interior of the Pipe Box are properly aged. This particular New England Pipe Box can be found in Wallace Nutting's Furniture Treasury, Vol. #1, Plate #197. This Pipe Box is painted in my "old" Grungy™ green milk paint. The milk paint surface has been well
aged and worn to reflect its use "over the years". The Pipe Box looks great wherever it is placed in your Home or perhaps his or her office. Whether placed on the corner of a mantel, on any early night stand, by your fireplace (away from the heat) to hold those long matches, or hanging on your wall holding white clay pipes; Early New England in your Home!

        In the early inns of the 18th century in America, travelers would stop for a meal and/or lodging. After the meal, they would sit around the fire to keep warm in the winter and share stories of the day. That is when the men, and probably some of the women, would go to the Pipe Box where they would find, of course, pipes and tobacco as well as flint and steel in the drawer(s); the flint and steel would be used to strike a spark and start a small fire with which to light their pipe. If a fire was already going, they would use an ember to "light up". When finished with their "smoke", they would break off the "used" end of the clay pipe in order to offer a "new clean" end to the next smoker. Having done this, the smoker would put the "clean" pipe back into the Pipe Box. I personally would not recommend this procedure; there is a definite limit as to how far one should go for authenticity sake.

        The Pipe Box is 18" H x 4" W x 4" D.

        Prices:  $325.00 in natural aged pine
                     $395.00 in worn and aged Grungy™ milk paint

        This photo shows the aged interior of one of the drawer compartments - please note worn drawer runner. The photo is an older one; drawer sides and back are made thinner now as they should be.

        One final note on Pipe Boxes, both the country versions and formal versions have been and are becoming more and more rare. I've seen country pieces at $10,000 and formal boxes over $16,500.00.