Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium 2 15/16" t x 11/16"

2 15/16" t x 11/16" w x 3/4" deep

There are a few small chips in the exterior bark along the edges

with various things displayed inside the scoop

Long sides measure 5 3/4" long

Mid-1950s I believe

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium 2 15/16" t x 11/16"A stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on