Odd Fellows IOOF Crystal Fount Lodge No. 9 Sick List, Woburn, Massachusetts 13-consignment The lid has a glass

The lid has a glass insert to guide the pen down into the ink

Other sellers on the web identify this as a Kalk box

I believe the metal to be copper

There is some dust under the glass

Odd Fellows IOOF Crystal Fount Lodge No. 9 Sick List, Woburn, Massachusetts 13-consignment The lid has a glassHere is an obscure relic of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, aka the IOOF a sick list from Crystal Fount Lodge No. 9, a lodge formerly located in Woburn, Massachusetts. A sick list was a list the lodge would use to keep track of members who were sick, debilitated, or in need of assistance. Being on the sick list would entitle members to certain benefits and payments furnished by fellow lodge members, a kind of secret society insurance. Presumably