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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 289363, member: 2844"]By the way Craig, welcome to the forum.</p><p>Beautiful box, well made.</p><p>I know nothing about captain's boxes, but here is just a thought. The wire racks are meant to keep something in place when it is stored inside the lid. Probably something that can vary in size or vary from one side to another, otherwise there would just have been another wooden board.</p><p>Assuming this is a captain's box, could it have been a compartment for a captain's log, which he kept stored open, to resume his notes whenever he had time again? Maybe with some kind of blotting paper in between the pages and the rack?</p><p>Obviously he would take the logbook out to write, the edges of the box would have been in the way otherwise. But for someone with little time, open page storage could be useful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 289363, member: 2844"]By the way Craig, welcome to the forum. Beautiful box, well made. I know nothing about captain's boxes, but here is just a thought. The wire racks are meant to keep something in place when it is stored inside the lid. Probably something that can vary in size or vary from one side to another, otherwise there would just have been another wooden board. Assuming this is a captain's box, could it have been a compartment for a captain's log, which he kept stored open, to resume his notes whenever he had time again? Maybe with some kind of blotting paper in between the pages and the rack? Obviously he would take the logbook out to write, the edges of the box would have been in the way otherwise. But for someone with little time, open page storage could be useful.[/QUOTE]
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