Extra Early, Extra Beautiful Set of 56 Color Cubes (Cool White Paint) unusual antique snuff box with two dots for eyes

with two dots for eyes and one single line on either side of the body to suggest wings

Signed (incised) on the underside but indecipherable

and graphite drawn eyes and beaks

and find them  poignant

with fingerprint) on the unused postcard back

Extra Early, Extra Beautiful Set of 56 Color Cubes (Cool White Paint) unusual antique snuff box with two dots for eyesI recently purchased a huge lot of old Color Cubes, which, as a devotee and connoisseur of Color Cubes, I could tell included some extra old ones, which I separated our from the rest to make this set of 56. The character of the wood and paint on these is just a different thing, and the whites a much colder white. I love these for so many different reasons fodder for creating an endless variety of beautiful patterns for sure, but this week I was