Curious Small Logger Made (?) Painted Box with Newspaper Photo Inside vintage handmade postcard rather life-like presence

rather life-like presence

maybe exactly because they seem sort of like hard-trying underdogs striving to be majestic

12 1/2" tall x 12" widest

and all of the details

Curious Small Logger Made (?) Painted Box with Newspaper Photo Inside vintage handmade postcard rather life-like presenceA curious one, at least to me. Found in Upstate New York, my guess is that with the faux tree stumps and knotty, grained wood decoration on the exterior, and newspaper photo inset into the underside of the lid is that is was made by a logger, who, I'd guess, was working at the the site pictured in the clipped and carefully framed photo. And, I would guess, like a spruce gum box, it was likely as a gift for a sweetheart back at home, with the silver