British c1760 Bible/Document box of early oak with beautiful carvings , possibly a ship box for the Captain. Dated AC 1760, the time traveling to the Caribbean islands for the Mahogany trade, the carved sea creatures may indicate for a ship captain at the time.

26.75ʺW × 14.5ʺD × 7.5ʺH

The English crown began to exert greater control over colonial trade in the 1760s, merchants with established contacts in the islands of the Caribbean. Mahogany once grew so abundantly
that woodcutters sawed out only the most ornamental part of the tree, leaving
the rest to decay. By the 1800s countrysides
dominated by fields of sugar cane and dotted with the ragged stumps of
mahogany trees, many over nine feet tall and that this most important raw material
neared extinction on a growing list of West Indian islands.