Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards Never too many creatures for

Never too many creatures for the managerie

I purchased it because I thought it was just a beautiful and curious sculptural object that would look great propped or hanging somewhere

resting on the flat end

called "handa" in Japanese

includes 48 pages total—26 of them at front filled mostly on one side with trigonometry and surveying exercises including beautiful diagrams

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back snip cards Never too many creatures forI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my