Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! huge poetry-writing and much much more

poetry-writing and much much more

now empty of the nuts

Pure joy finding this one amid a pile at an antiques shop in New Hampshire this week--eaily overlooked

Light rusting as there should be

decorated one) were used by young girls as stylists to draw pictures in the snow

Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! huge poetry-writing and much much moreThis chunky hand carved box is about as far from refined as they come, but it is very hard trying and very endearing and I could not walk away from it. I feel fairly certain it was made as a sweetheart gift; i take the portrait in profile carved into the top as a portrait of the sweetheart in question. Circling her around the sides of the box are a reclining nude, viewed from the rear; a cheerful butterfly, a bottle (rum or whisky I'm not sure!), and