1914-1917 Beautifully Crafted Folk Art Inlaid Wood Souvenir Box antique scrapbook drawings (with an office on Pearl

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Some mirth to make is only meant

has lost part of its side and is stained along the lower edge of the lid

finely made set of "bones"

1914-1917 Beautifully Crafted Folk Art Inlaid Wood Souvenir Box antique scrapbook drawings (with an office on PearlI've got a real soft spot for inlaid folk art wooden boxes like this one, which, like the best tramp art, embody a combination of skill, individual creativity and lots of patient labor, with the dates on either short end of this one suggesting it took three years to finish! A hundred plus years later it remains in beautiful condition, with just the tiniest bit of loss: two super thin vertical strips at the front corners, super minor, and the wood and