Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio There is a small loss

There is a small loss to one edge of the muddling end that looks to have occurred long ago

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

sturdy and stable and great looking

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio There is a small lossInexplicable, and rather uncanny, too this is a cigar box collection of toy weapons, which someone treated like butterflies, carefully arranging and mounting with estucheon pins to the inside of a cigar box, cotton batting underneath, just as if rare specimens. An art project, or a personal obsession, I have no idea but I like the idea that a series of action figures (GI Joe, etc.) were systematically disarmed and their guns and grenades safely locked