Antique Folk Art Wall Box with Framed Portraits of Handsome Jockeys jet also known as Wild Turnip

also known as Wild Turnip

but I must say I have fallen in love with it and so with her too

and what looks like an old hairline crack to the surface wooden knob

1800–1875)

Antique Folk Art Wall Box with Framed Portraits of Handsome Jockeys jet also known as Wild TurnipQuite a lot of love invested in this one, fashioned it appears to me from a mix of cigar box wood and pine. Inside each of the five frames is a cut and pasted face, clearly Victorian era, and all of them looking to be handsome young men, all of them horse jockeys I believe! The only one that shows loss is at center front to me begging to be filled now with the handsome young man of one's choice! At the top of the box is a small pocket, large enough