Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box homemade book I at least find animals

I at least find animals with a few wounds all the more empathetic

Age and wear evident: some craquelure and some paint loss especially along the bottom edge from where I assume it was at one point framed as well as some scattered small chips here

it is composed of matchsticks: burned at their tips

though she's resilient and still stands proudly upright

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Early, Beautifully Detailed Carved Out Slide Lid Box homemade book I at least find animalsThis is quite an old box, I believe earlyish 19th c. if not older, and quite a wonderful one I think, carved out from one piece of wood, with a great deal of effort invested in decorative carving on the long sides cross hatching on one and a more complex pattern of chip carving on the other. I love the raised pull end of the slide lid, which looks rather like a pillow at the head of a bed, with a piece of iron stretched over the top looking rather