Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls just exactly my favorite sort

just exactly my favorite sort of drawing

It is signed on the bottom with what looks like "SJ" and is in great vintage condition

but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties--most immediately that hand printed paper cover

He matched his cross displays with as many—if not more—hand-painted admonitions and apocalyptic warnings such as “Hell is Hot” and “Sinners Burn in Hell

I can't get enough of these old domino playing cards

Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls just exactly my favorite sortI'm a complete sucker for things like this, which I feel it is my calling to rescue and appreciate whether or not anyone else does. It's a (very) homemade box, I think the work of a young Horace Chase, who signed his name to one side of it, and then Stanley Chase, his younger brother I presume, took it over and signed his name to the lid, and another side, and then started in on a third. Perfectly wonky, and very sweet; feels like the sort of box in