Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) pop of color and a traveller letting bygones

and a traveller letting bygones by bygones

Chip carved of cigar box wood

then glued back together

Cut out of a sketchbook I'd guess

Nothing fancy

Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) pop of color and a traveller letting bygonesNot in perfect condition, but so charming and so singular, I don't mind and what a lot of work and care Samuel Stevens of West Derby Vermont, who signed the back, invested in making this wall hanging comb box, 150 years ago or so I would guess. It feels to me perhaps connected to Samuel studying geometry, with all of these gridded holes, connected by carved lines, creating triangles within triangles and squares within squares and feeling a bit as if