Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ST I've documented each drawing followed

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I love this tin

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Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ST I've documented each drawing followedI'm forever on the hunt for these but they're hard to find, especially a good old one still functioning and even more so with such a brilliantly painted snake inside. Of the perfect scale, too. Plenty of wear to the paint stain on the exterior of the carved book shaped box, but some nice red and green painted detail at the corners still holding on, and most all of that best green on the sides and slide. Works very smoothly, and by sticking just a