Folding carboard lunch box, titled Brock House, Enterprise, Fla. on one side, and Lunch on the other

by Robert Gair

$1,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Signed

Brooklyn: Robert Gair, n.d., ca. 1880s . Approximately 7½ x 5 x 3 when built; includes the original red and white cloth handle which remains intact; the illustration of the Brock Hotel is a wood engraving taken from a photograph the engraving signed U.S. Photo Eng Co. Boston and is within a fancy metal-cut border; the copyright slug reads Robert Gair / Manufacturer / 161 & 163 Chambers, and 143 Reade Sta. / New York. The top of the box is a

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