Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ethereal There is a bit of

There is a bit of a gap between one back leg and the main body where the nails have come out a bit

which is what I love about them--the most pared down (and I think very elegant) solutions to the task

and that it is a very lovely and tender one

and who I would guess is the subject of the ambrotype (or at least a relative of)

Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ethereal There is a bit ofI'm forever on the hunt for these but they're hard to find, especially a good old one still functioning and even more so with such a brilliantly painted snake inside. Of the perfect scale, too. Plenty of wear to the paint stain on the exterior of the carved book shaped box, but some nice red and green painted detail at the corners still holding on, and most all of that best green on the sides and slide. Works very smoothly, and by sticking just a