Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait vintage 1950s move up and down (one

move up and down (one is a bit tight so I did not push it) and he stands up on his own

and don't know whether that is correct or not

great sign

The deck was created by Isobel Field

and Paul Kruger (President of the South African Republic-or Transvaal

Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait vintage 1950s move up and down (oneI rarely meet a book shaped thing I don't like, and this feels like something of an example of not judging a book by its cover! I'm thinking there may once have been a picture of some sort adhered to the outside cover, which shows a bare spot surrounded by red paint now and perhaps that picture functioned as a sort of counterpart to the portrait print of woman in large plumed hat inside; my guess is that it turned this book box into a c. 1800 French