Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century folk art spool holder and dated 1965

and dated 1965

This one was filed half-way through from one direction

though someone took very good care of the exterior

pencil on construction paper

including for the bubbles in the glass and the play of patterns enabled by the transparency of the glass

Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century folk art spool holder and dated 1965An unusual little box, found in Lancaster County, the scale and shape of a vesta, which I think it was carved to be, but unusual for having slide openings on both ends. I presume it was the fragment of mirror that gave cause to the carving the box a precious thing, not to go to waste and were the box empty of matches, I presume the mirror could be used to spark a fire. I also presume the twice recessed long side of the box was meant for striking said