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“The Speckled Band”

This is the second largest box I’ve made, approximately the size of a child’s shoe box. (My largest was “Silver Blaze,” which was in a wooden jewelry box that I modified to look like the front of 221B.) Both were very fun boxes to make, particularly since they are two of my favorite stories.

The clues in this box have been glued down. The items at the foot of the bed are a bent poker from a set of andirons and a dog leash tied into a loop at the end.
On top of the bed is lying a cane, a candle, and a snake crawling down a bell pull. This scene was possibly what got me hooked on Sherlock Holmes as a youngster, so it was a lot of fun to recreate it!
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