Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage The sculpture measures 10" long

The sculpture measures 10" long x 9 1/2" tall x 4 1/2" deep and is in excellent vintage condition

and seems quite a spirit of independence captured in this watercolor

Plain blue paper cover

which I presume was made as a snuff box

Just a couple of matchstick bits missing from the chimney

Antique Relief Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Mother, Daughter, and Slide Opening Back drawing on collage The sculpture measures 10" longI love a book shaped box, or book shaped anything, really, and love the very folky relief carving as well as the hidden box deceptiveness! about this one. Terrific faces and hands and hair and surface on the mother and daughter in chair carved on the face of it, with ALBUM arching overhead making it all feel very cozy, and a wonderfully carved latch lock, too, spanning the gold painted recessed "pages" on the side. On the reverse, unusual in my