Stars, Moon, Sun, Arrow, ?, Fabulous Antique Heavily Decorated Folk Art Razors Box moma staring right back at us

staring right back at us

to be turned over to confirm success (or peek to cheat) after dessert was finished

and on this one how much wear there is the front of the face itself

and it's the sort of painting that makes me want to build a salon style wall of folk art paintings of farms and farmhouses

reveal so much about the times--in this case with the penmanship phrases seeming to reflect the Second Great Awakening

Stars, Moon, Sun, Arrow, ?, Fabulous Antique Heavily Decorated Folk Art Razors Box moma staring right back at usOne of my favorite finds at the Rhinebeck show, purchased from a Maine based dealer who always has wonderful things. And the warm energy around this box is of a magical sort. I believe it was made as a box to hold folding straight razors, and I have a hunch it was the box of someone who delivered shaves for a living perhaps a train station barber, very common in the late 19th early 20th century, with the box feeling to me close kin to a folk art shoe