Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage Plain blue paper cover

Plain blue paper cover

4 1/2" tall x 5/8" thick

which I presume was made as a snuff box

very visually satisfying

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage Plain blue paper coverI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my