Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy Mexico stamped on the underside

Mexico stamped on the underside

meandering around their perimeters and it looks to me perhaps spelling out the initials RS at upper left

So many antique school books to love

He was businessman (Curtis & Marble Company) and one of the  foremost historic glass cup plate collectors in America (a genre of glass plates featuring historic portraits (busts)

which was done very well and really disappears

Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy Mexico stamped on the undersideI 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