Excellent Antique Shellwork Jewelry Box surreal There is a good amount

There is a good amount of wear to the lacquer

which is without a bottom

and a super useful one

what could be sweeter for holding a few favorite rings or a bunch of paperclips than this vintage gold and black lacquer frog box

Excellent Antique Shellwork Jewelry Box surreal There is a good amountI've been looking a long time for an antique shellwork box to really love, and finally found it in the this one (though I am still on the hunt for a sailor's valentine!) As a genre, I think of these as the coastal cousins of chip carved tramp art boxes, but I've found it rare to find ones that elevate gluing to shells onto a box to something that feels like an art form! I think in part it is the use of crushed shells to encrust every inch of the