Bootsey! Old Match Stick and Inlay Tramp Art Box with Head, Hearts, and Photos Inside free masons apron It appears to me that

It appears to me that all of the bottle caps here are early and pretty rare ones

I’d like to imagine this was once the lid of a box that held a set of beautiful bone carved letters

and in fact I can't find its exact match

and transfer decorated in a manner that reminds me a lot of the wonderful work of Clarice Cliff

between the marvelously tender interactions among figures--the touch of fingers

Bootsey! Old Match Stick and Inlay Tramp Art Box with Head, Hearts, and Photos Inside free masons apron It appears to me thatQuite a patina on this one, and quite a lot of charms packed into it, outside and in and how ever to resist a box made by, or for, a Bootsey, especially when spelled out in matchsticks?! Inlaid silhouette of a woman's head on top, pair of hearts facing front, and all sorts of other decoration executed in matchsticks, other inlaid bits of wood, and and what look to be some seeds mixed in for texture, too. On the interior, a built out photo frame on the