Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher undermining the capacity for time

undermining the capacity for time to fly

This chop was purchased from the estate of a collector in central Massachusetts which included a phenomenal array of fine figurines and animal-related art and objects from around the world

a sense of holiness

these two canoeing women in their fabulously detailed dresses

And what a fantastic treatment of the stump he is perched on

Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher undermining the capacity for timeAn unusual one. There are wrapped birch bark boxes of this ilk that are described Scandinavian, and others described as Native American I am really not entirely sure about this one, but I do know that it is an old one, 19th century I do believe, with iron nails holding it together here and there. I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark let alone a heart! and, curiously, the appears to be an image of a few playing cards showing