Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history first published in 1909

first published in 1909

and which I think are just right and just terrific

but this I believe is by far the loveliest

On the backside is paper stamp dated 1916

How nice to throw this lovely pair of antique French Traveler’s clothes brushes into one's suitcase atop a pile of carefully folded clothes when setting off on a long trip

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history first published in 1909A stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on