Both Humble and Grand Old Three Tiered Cigar Box Building with Nail and String Terrace Rail shut with the chimney doubling as

with the chimney doubling as a coin slot and the hinged front door opening wide to fetch one's fortune

a hole for a thimble on top of the tail

but I can't find one

but there is something uniquely satisfying about large sets of unpainted wooden ones like this--elegant and elemental and like the pure embodiment of creative possibility

only visible if one is looking for them

Both Humble and Grand Old Three Tiered Cigar Box Building with Nail and String Terrace Rail shut with the chimney doubling asHumble materials but grand ambitions, put to work constructing what I take for a state house or other sort of public building of some significance. Cigar box wood, string, and nails, plus a gold painted finial nailed to the top. The green painted roof (roofs) show a good bit of aging and soiling; I did some gentle wiping and dusting (including behind those string rails) but they are as they are, probably stored in a basement or barn somewhere for some