Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider antique landscape painting This one was made by

This one was made by Stanley and is model number 68

are also found carved of wood

At least this is what I think is going on here

super solid and sturdy and with a truly gorgeous patina

Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider antique landscape painting This one was made byI've come to keep an eye out for old bee boxes, especially for the fact that they tend to vary widely, each one representing its individual maker's solution to the problem of capturing, releasing, and transporting bees. This one is pretty straight forward as far as they go, with just a single chamber, perhaps just for carrying a queen(?) fronted with a pane of glass and backed with a sliding door, which looks to have been cut from a cigar box, as