(Our Pug)...Funny! Curious Old Homemade Cigar Box Wood Box bear in tree a monkey rides a horse

a monkey rides a horse

but there is a metal post at the end for sticking it into something now

but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it

This is quite an old box

(Our Pug)...Funny! Curious Old Homemade Cigar Box Wood Box bear in tree a monkey rides a horseI found this one in Pennsylvania, and just thought it was, well, funny! And sweet, too, crafted of cigar box wood long ago, clearly to very deliberately to have that "FUNNY!" on the underside of the lid. On the exterior of the lid appears "Our Pug", indicating I believe that the wood was salvaged from a Pug brand cigar box, but the "Pug" seems to have be intentionally blacked out, leaving the text to add up to "Our Funny" and so making me think