Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! huge but they range from 12

but they range from 12 1/2" to 13" square

now empty of the nuts

ideally one giving a big wave

This set of of chess pieces might inspire me to practice

Pure joy finding this one amid a pile at an antiques shop in New Hampshire this week--eaily overlooked

Ultra Folky Old Hand-carved Wooden Sweetheart Box with Portrait, Nude, Houses, Bottle, and Butterfly! huge but they range from 12This chunky hand carved box is about as far from refined as they come, but it is very hard trying and very endearing and I could not walk away from it. I feel fairly certain it was made as a sweetheart gift; i take the portrait in profile carved into the top as a portrait of the sweetheart in question. Circling her around the sides of the box are a reclining nude, viewed from the rear; a cheerful butterfly, a bottle (rum or whisky I'm not sure!), and