Book Shaped Brass Folk Art / Trench Art Snuff Box with Combination Lock Dials lettering set transporting and releasing a bee

transporting and releasing a bee or bees--and I really love this one

and a couple of old fat nails holding it securely in place

only to himself be tricked into sticking his head in the noose

in a sweet little slide top box into which the tiles fit just perfectly

sound and very stable' paper on the back of the head is not shedding

Book Shaped Brass Folk Art / Trench Art Snuff Box with Combination Lock Dials lettering set transporting and releasing a beeI love this thing. My theory is that it is a folk trench art creation modeled on Dutch and English combination lock dialed snuff boxes of the 18th and 19th century (one photo at the end as example.) Those were more refined and the dialing locking mechanisms concealed, while here it's all revealed on the interior of the lid. I love it precisely for this homespun ness, and of course for being shaped like a little book, and for the pleasure of turning