Sweet and Self-Reflexive Old Match Covered Match Box vintage Mexican folk art armadillo post 32" long

post 32" long

spelling "soleil" at left (wonderfully divided across two lines as if an afterthought

or to call everyone to dinner

the more I admire it

Sweet and Self-Reflexive Old Match Covered Match Box vintage Mexican folk art armadillo post 32" longOf course an old match box should be encased in matches, each one burned black before being carefully laid down alongside the one before it. To my eye quite a satisfying thing formally, and even better self reflexive I'l like to think it was the matches from this very Red & White Brand match box that were used to make it, yielding the empty box! 5 1 8" x 3" x 1 3 4". Very good condition. C. 1940s or so, I believe.