Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake photo statue This is that

This is that

like most one sees

but I really love speculating about it

They've got a great bi-level bottom that allows them to be displayed at a slant as well as displayed upright

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake photo statue This is thatA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on