INSPIRATION - English Oak Bible Box

JOAT have you ever seen this?:

Alex

Thu, Dec 23, 2004, 8:22pm (EST-3) snipped-for-privacy@notquite.net (AAvK) asks: JOAT have you ever seen this?:

I prefer the box.

Religious truth. Now that reminds me of "military intelligence", "jumbo shrimp", and so on.

JOAT WYGIWYGAINGW: What You Get Is What You're Given And It's No Good Whining.

It's not 18th century English either. It might be American (most likely), or it might be older English work - it might even be rustic Welsh, but it's not English-made and newer than mid-17thC.

On Thu 23 Dec 2004 09:31:35p, snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (J T) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3151.bay.webtv.net:

Does he have an English Oak Bible?

Wish there was a pic of inside so we could see the lock mechanism. That might clinch it.

FoggyTown

I doubt it. Bible boxes are common, original locks are impossibly rare. Most of the ones I see have obvious signs of two or three locks, and many of them were originally unlocked, as you can tell from the carving.

Fri, Dec 24, 2004, 11:23am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@codesmiths.com (Andy=A0Dingley) claims: It's not 18th century English either. It might be American (most likely), or it might be older English work - it might even be rustic Welsh, but it's not English-made and newer than mid-17thC.

I just found out the actual history on that box. It was made by an old Englishman, living in the Welsh countryside, out of oak cut in England, in the late 17th Century, and sold to an American tourist. LMAO,

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