Unusual Carved Burl Folk Art Box with Two Moon Like Faces (One Inside!) sequential narrative drawings 8 3/4" long x 5

8 3/4" long x 5 15/16" wide x 1 1/8" deep

dating to the early 1910s

everyone covets old primitive boards

so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks

Subjects range from Frederick Douglas to Joan Baez to E

Unusual Carved Burl Folk Art Box with Two Moon Like Faces (One Inside!) sequential narrative drawings 8 3/4" long x 5I purchased this wonderful box this summer from a dealer in Pennsylvania and wanted to live with it a bit! He thought perhaps Victorian era; I might guess is 1920s 40s, but am not completely sure, nor I am certain of its origins. It feels a bit miraculous to me though, the way this face is carved into the burl, making perfect use of the color variation, and with the grain of the burl itself giving waves to the hair and then stippled carving on the