Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush The top of the box

The top of the box is a tapering

with just a bit of wear to the sharp edges of the ball in cage at end

some light scrapes to the mirror around the edges but very usable and structurally very sound

I believe likely from an opposite page in the scrapbook where it was long housed

Tepton comes from a line of Inupiaq wood and bone carvers

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush The top of the boxIt was suggested to me when I purchased this that it was a piece of trench art, and I think that it likely, with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap. In any case, it's certainly it's own special folk art thing, and I really love this smiling but very focused looking fellow very intent on the task at hand, which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood. Incised on both sides, and serving as a