Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards and used for casting ornaments

and used for casting ornaments for architecture

This Sapolin Gold Leaf Kit in its original wonderful turned wooden canister with dome lid

resting on the flat end

” I found it quite interesting to learn that Lavater's physiognomy work (which became enormously popular in France and England especially) is attributed with catalyzing the golden age for cut paper silhouettes

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards and used for casting ornamentsI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my