Wings and Strings, Striking Art Deco Etched and Gilded Cigarette Case vintage beatles drawing It has endured very well

It has endured very well

I love a chip-carved tramp art box with lots of stacked layers

we need all the postal boxes we can get

states began to pass what indigenous Alaskans consider (and many others) consider overbroad laws banning the sale of all ivory

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Wings and Strings, Striking Art Deco Etched and Gilded Cigarette Case vintage beatles drawing It has endured very wellNot exactly my usual thing, but I was completely seduced by this and could not walk away. It is a cigarette case, c. 1920s or so I believe, with a gold toned metal strap inside that is designed to be easily removed, such that it could certainly be used for other things. The material is some sort of hard plastic, celluloid or similar, but reads like etched glass, and for me this very much calls to mind verre eglomise patch and candy boxes of a century