Vintage Folk Art Glass Mosaic Rat! celluloid match book covers all the better for the

all the better for the alligatoring to the red paint on the comb and wattle

I personally find this quite beautiful

The only apparent flaw is a very fine hairline crack in the base of one vessel (pictured) which appears to have no structural impact

and still charming

and especially special for its variety of elaborately penned alphabets (including one page with Armenian

Vintage Folk Art Glass Mosaic Rat! celluloid match book covers all the better for theThis mosaic creation mounted on wood panel made me laugh when I found it, but it might just be my new favorite thing. In significant part that is because I believe it is a giant rat that is depicted, in shimmery shades of brown, with gold background, and best of all metallic green eye and very long white whiskers! Perhaps is Ben, the killer rat from the 1970s movie of the same name that inspired this one, but I'm more inclined to think its maker had a