Loaf Like Old Beer Cap Covered Block spanish colonial carved figure This is one of my

This is one of my very favorite boxes I've had in my possession

Such a great long-nosed face

It is marked with an "x" on the base and three small pads have been added

I have long admired these sorts of tiles-- produced in the 18th and 19th century during the Qajar period in Persia--which very frequently feature hunters on horses like this one

the hands (and especially the curling fingers of the woman at left

Loaf Like Old Beer Cap Covered Block spanish colonial carved figure This is one of myAnother weird one that I've quickly become very fond of no fancy transformation of bottle caps into baskets or links here, just a nailing of as many as possible onto an old painted block of wood, which wound up looking rather like a loaf. Strangely satisfying, and very all American. 5 5 8" w x 3 5 8" d x 3" t, very solid, with some nice age to it, a bit more rusty on one side than the other.