Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique lacquer snuff box so easy to stick in

so easy to stick in the lawn for Halloween

At the center of each form is a subtle flesh color

with tiny spots of brown to perfectly portray the skin and subtle darkening here and there to suggest bruises

they still look great and have years of good use in them yet

Antique Wood Slide Top Box Lid with Carved Alphabet antique lacquer snuff box so easy to stick inId like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters, and that its owner carved a second alphabet into the lid to make it extra special. Really, I have no idea how it came to be, but I sure love it, with the carved divets on the slide lid dictating the starting position for the first two rows of letters, and pointing at them like arrows. Then one longer spanning the whole lenght, leaving just a lonely YZ