Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy sturdily screwed on to the

sturdily screwed on to the mother and/or to the base

Mexico stamped on the underside

and will continue to scoop them up when I can because I find them such beautiful things

(Forgive my not great photos here taken in crummy lighting

So many antique school books to love

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy sturdily screwed on to theI purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration