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The Wissahickon Porfolio Project. Ten clamshell boxes, measuring 32" x 25” were custom made to house the artwork of Sam Gilliam which was created in Philadelphia, 2019. Ten woodcuts were printed in collaboration with Brandywine Workshop and Archives and Dos Tress Press. Printed by Alexis Nutini on Somerset Paper as an edition of ten.

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The clamshell box above was made as a wedding gift for a couple to their son and daughter - in - law. The box was created to hold silverware, (specifically fish knives and forks) that had been passed down through four generations. The box was covered in a navy blue book cloth on the exterior and a black book cloth for the inside. You can read more about the silverware story here.

Photo credit: Ditta Baron Hoeber

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These clamshell boxes were created to house the Gun-Wad Bibles. They were printed in Germantown by Christopher Saur in 1776. His father, a German immigrant, produced the first two editions which were the first bibles printed in the German language in America. The boxes were wrapped in brown book cloth with a goatskin leather label adhered to the spine and gold stamped with the title.

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In August 2013 a good friend in England was getting married. As a wedding gift to the happy couple I hand made this wedding album and clamshell box. The album is bound in fair goatskin that I dyed a mauve color, with a handpicked marble paper for the end papers. The album was hand stamped with gold lettering. The box was given a three-quarter leather binding with the same leather as the album, and stamped on the spine. The balance of the box was wrapped in a beautiful turquoise Japanese Asahi bookcloth.