Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait carved mirror with her skeletal and circulatory

with her skeletal and circulatory systems exposed on the following flaps

is this carved wooden pocket knife

and the rust on this little saw blade certainly attests to that

Excellent condition

Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait carved mirror with her skeletal and circulatoryI rarely meet a book shaped thing I don't like, and this feels like something of an example of not judging a book by its cover! I'm thinking there may once have been a picture of some sort adhered to the outside cover, which shows a bare spot surrounded by red paint now and perhaps that picture functioned as a sort of counterpart to the portrait print of woman in large plumed hat inside; my guess is that it turned this book box into a c. 1800 French