Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box silver cat pin and Milton Bradley

and Milton Bradley

looking like a sculptural slab with rusty

)--took the trouble to drill holes through the wood in order to stitch through its little pink nose and those great button eyes

located inside the Allegany Indian Reservation

almost all of it is readable

Curious Old Hand-carved Angled Two Compartment Slide Lid Box silver cat pin and Milton BradleyI 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