Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) antique birch box snuff box Photos show a bit of

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the first and most obvious being the tiger swallowtail butterfly hand-stitched to the top of it--tethered just about 140 years ago

with carved and painted wooden head and body

I'm strangely obsessed with this one

and the fact that the roof will catch and feed rain into rain barrels if desired

Sad Face: Excellent Crayon Resist Kid Drawing (or Friendly Ghost the Other Way) antique birch box snuff box Photos show a bit ofI actually picked this one out of a pile looking at it upside down, thinking it looked like a smiling ghost (or snow woman) see second photo. Then I turned it the right way up to find this very sober looking, somewhat Frankenstein ian face! Both ways pretty terrific I think, and I like this idea of the drawing holding two aspects at once. Plus what a brilliant thing crayon resist drawing paintings are, with the scraped away black tempera paint lending