Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit faience stalk of corn and shaft

stalk of corn and shaft of wheat on the other with sun

which also produced the Color Cubes I love so much--and the blue and white star blocks and yellow stacking disks inside are pretty great looking too

a sailor's weapon

but the glass is quite thick and I'd guess would not shatter very easily

While great just as objects

Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit faience stalk of corn and shaftIt's the SCREWS crudely carved into the top of this box, with a pocket knife I'd guess, that makes me love it, and even more so in combination with this mysterious small slit cut through the lid, which seems just the right size to accommodate a folded up paper ballot. As such, it seems "screws" might take on a double meaning as if one imagined that the outcome of the election would, say, leave them screwed, or if they believed all the candidates were