Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box Mikaela Dorfel and it's none too often

and it's none too often one comes across a dragonfly

though I am not entirely sure

believed it to be a similarly early piece

those eyes are always watching

Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box Mikaela Dorfel and it's none too oftenI love a carved box, and a sliding lid, and and things carved from one piece of wood, and interesting geometries of all sorts, and so of course I fell in love with this one. The seller (from what I could make out on his tag) seems to have thought perhaps for holding floats (maybe he meant fly fishing flies?), which it seems the leather strap on one side, which could be looped through a belt, might suggest, though the strap could just as easily attach