Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found car to slippers on the rug

to slippers on the rug next to the bed

I think this is a merger of a couple of different sets

5 5/8 x 3 9/16 and in good condition

I think of these as the coastal cousins of chip-carved tramp art boxes

And what hair

Sweet Old Homemade Wire Hinged Lap Desk with Many Compartments, Full as Found car to slippers on the rugSuper sweet. I've had one or two old Dennison brand office sets boxes inside of boxes meant to provide everything one might need for sending a letter of a package, say from paper tags to air mail labels and everything in between. This wooden lap desk is like the humbly homemade version of one of these, especially as found, packed with paper tags and air mail labels indeed plus pins and chalk and binder clips and marking pencils, etc. With jointed