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Berkeley Lighthouse

“Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other” - Virginia Woolf

Boxes and Booze 7/18/20 Boxes and Booze 7/18/20

Cannon Puzzles

“The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Castle Money Box

Treen Castle is not a castle, it’s a jagged rocky promontory of cliffs that sit on the edge of Cornwall, England in the town of Treen.

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Barrel and Ball

Small wooden household and domestic objects were referred to as “treen” in the nineteenth century and earlier, a word derived literally from “of a tree”.

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Donay Pear

We’re taking a sabbatical abroad this summer at Boxes and Booze to visit England and shine the spotlight on a very special wood turner named John Berkeley.

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Clutch Box

There’s a fantastic origin story behind this award winning puzzle maker (it's appropriate that he has an origin story, given his almost supernatural abilities).

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Feed the Monkey

“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.” – General Joseph Stilwell

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Hip Flask

Here’s a beautiful little object which falls into the category of “perfect boxes and booze” puzzle, since the puzzle itself reflects the theme of the blog.

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Dragos

The following excerpts were taken from a dusty leather-bound journal, recently discovered amidst the stalls of an old bookstore in Ontario.

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AGES

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” ― Milan Kundera

A spirited journey through the world of collectible artisan puzzles