Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century folk art spool holder 3 1/16" x 2 5/8"

3 1/16" x 2 5/8"

originating (according to Wikipedia) "in 1888 when Charles Martin Hall

painted over with what I think is watercolor

pencil on construction paper

including for the bubbles in the glass and the play of patterns enabled by the transparency of the glass

Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century folk art spool holder 3 1/16" x 2 5/8"An unusual little box, found in Lancaster County, the scale and shape of a vesta, which I think it was carved to be, but unusual for having slide openings on both ends. I presume it was the fragment of mirror that gave cause to the carving the box a precious thing, not to go to waste and were the box empty of matches, I presume the mirror could be used to spark a fire. I also presume the twice recessed long side of the box was meant for striking said