Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s agate and gold There is one round hole

There is one round hole in the lid and two in the bottom (only one that goes all the way through the wood and smaller than a peppercorn

The book plate is from a 1870 French volume I believe titled "Le Ciel" (the Sky)

but definitely has smeared some

but I've never seen

largely for the purpose of visiting their wonderful gift shop

Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s agate and gold There is one round holeThis is a very lovely Arts & Crafts letter holder by Forest Mann, who operated Forest Craft Guild in Grand Rapid Michigan, 1905 1918. An elegant form with perfect patina, and quintessentially Arts & Crafts triangle shaped cutouts with slightly rounded corners along the front. Born in 1879, Mann attended the Pratt Institute, NY, where he was a student of Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating, he taught Arts & Crafts classes in Dayton, Ohio, and founded