Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history credited with inventing the chalkboard

credited with inventing the chalkboard eraser

9 7/8" w x 7 3/8" t

first published in 1909

How nice to throw this lovely pair of antique French Traveler’s clothes brushes into one's suitcase atop a pile of carefully folded clothes when setting off on a long trip

I'd hang it exactly as it is

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history credited with inventing the chalkboardA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on