Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ethereal It has a wonderful presence

It has a wonderful presence and a fire cloud on one side from the traditional outdoor firing

but such is clearly part of her lot in life as a woman of means

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

with lots of scrapes and some paint splotches here and there

Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ethereal It has a wonderful presenceI'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