Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) pop of color and a traveller letting bygones

and a traveller letting bygones by bygones

It has a few years on it at least

meant to hold matches

with some aging to the surface as pictured and a bit of bending to the tab on one side at the very bottom

Cut out of a sketchbook I'd guess

Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) pop of color and a traveller letting bygonesNot in perfect condition, but so charming and so singular, I don't mind and what a lot of work and care Samuel Stevens of West Derby Vermont, who signed the back, invested in making this wall hanging comb box, 150 years ago or so I would guess. It feels to me perhaps connected to Samuel studying geometry, with all of these gridded holes, connected by carved lines, creating triangles within triangles and squares within squares and feeling a bit as if