Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box rebus game my attachment to it is

my attachment to it is its beauty

6 7/8" t x 6 1/2" l x 1 3/8" d

with each of the eggs but for the largest one hand-decorated

Links are about 1 3/8" long each and cage is 4 3/8" long

came from a portfolio of antique drawings by Pennsylvania folk/outsider artist Wayne B

Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box rebus game my attachment to it isI love a carved box, and a sliding lid, and and things carved from one piece of wood, and interesting geometries of all sorts, and so of course I fell in love with this one. The seller (from what I could make out on his tag) seems to have thought perhaps for holding floats (maybe he meant fly fishing flies?), which it seems the leather strap on one side, which could be looped through a belt, might suggest, though the strap could just as easily attach