Elton.S. Durkee 1884 Sketchbook Featuring Oregon Estates special box I think fairly old and

I think fairly old and likely Italian

which this one does not--rather

and how the form of the bulge pretty much exactly echoes the form of the body

as well as two solid decorative lines along its front

Elton.S. Durkee 1884 Sketchbook Featuring Oregon Estates special box I think fairly old andA little research tells me that the Durkee family was important in the settlement of Oregon, with the first members of the family moving from New England to San Francisco during the gold rush in 1850, and later settling in Oregon. There, it seems they were responsible for a fair amount of early development, including the establishment of Durkee, an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, so named in 1883 named when the railroad bought its