Sweet Old Tramp Art Match Stick Box with Painted Star and Rich Patina damaged toy What I love about this

What I love about this old art nouveau bookend is the super folky (one might say homely) face on this a nude

I first guessed brother and sister

being all about the act and process of collecting them--170+ years ago

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Sweet Old Tramp Art Match Stick Box with Painted Star and Rich Patina damaged toy What I love about thisFound in Lancaster County, PA, which I do think of as the land of stars, so am always glad to find a few when I am there. And quite an effort the maker of this match stick box put into cutting all of those matchsticks just right (more or less) to surround the inlay of this particular wooden star, which they then painted this electric aqua blue. A little surface wear just there, but not a matchstick lost there or anywhere, and satisfying from every