Antique Desk Compendium with Filing Sleeves and Calendar

• Compendium - A compendium is usually a wooden box that has several compartments and drawers for storing the various items. A stationery compendium would be used for storing and organizing various personal or business items including documents, business cards, passports, and other items that need to be organized and easily accessible. It is typically a wooden box t
  
  A compendium for correspondence would usually have pockets for holding different sizes of envelopes, and sometimes may have a built-in address book or a calendar. It can also have a pen loop or holder, and sometimes a calculator.
  
  
  A compendium for games would usually have pockets for holding game pieces, cards and sometimes rule books. It can also have a space for a chess or checkers board.
  
  
  
  A sewing compendium would have compartments for thimbles, bobbins, needles etc.
  
  

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• boxes, function - desk tidy / desk compendium 50
• boxes, writing - writing boxes / writing slopes, various timbers 185