Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage Light wear around the edges

Light wear around the edges and a bit of staining and some tiny pin pricks to the surface right lower side

4 1/2" tall x 5/8" thick

I believe this old wooden stacking toy is very early Playskool--1940s or so I think

and seems quite a spirit of independence captured in this watercolor

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage Light wear around the edgesI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my