Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel As detailed on the inside

As detailed on the inside of the front cover

which has me thinking about the decorative potential of pins stuck in all sorts of things

13 7/8” t x 9” l x 11/16” thick and in very good condition

a native of New York State

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel As detailed on the insideInexplicable, and rather uncanny, too this is a cigar box collection of toy weapons, which someone treated like butterflies, carefully arranging and mounting with estucheon pins to the inside of a cigar box, cotton batting underneath, just as if rare specimens. An art project, or a personal obsession, I have no idea but I like the idea that a series of action figures (GI Joe, etc.) were systematically disarmed and their guns and grenades safely locked