Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) paper cut done with feet Insect bites

Insect bites

With hole running all the way through his chest

and a wonderfully sculptural embodiment of problem solving at its best

and in very good overall condition

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Samuel Stevens' Charming Geometrically Patterned Hanging Comb Box (One Small Loss) paper cut done with feet Insect bitesNot in perfect condition, but so charming and so singular, I don't mind and what a lot of work and care Samuel Stevens of West Derby Vermont, who signed the back, invested in making this wall hanging comb box, 150 years ago or so I would guess. It feels to me perhaps connected to Samuel studying geometry, with all of these gridded holes, connected by carved lines, creating triangles within triangles and squares within squares and feeling a bit as if