Wonderful Old Hand-carved Bird Shaped Box pickle gap crafts 7 3/4" wide x 3

7 3/4" wide x 3 3/4" tall

paper: 8 1/2"x 10 1/2"

each with its own personality: one seeming almost on the verge of cracking a smile

It is quite a fine one

which is much of why I like it

Wonderful Old Hand-carved Bird Shaped Box pickle gap crafts 7 3/4" wide x 3I was delighted to find this one in New Hampshire the other day, which I presume was made as a snuff box, 19th c American I would guess. (It would really also be the perfect box for holding the tiny bone dice I just listed!) Such an elegant form suggesting a bird through the sparest of means (it feels to me quite reminiscent of early Native American bird stones), wider for the body and gracefully tapering toward the gently pointing beak. I also love