Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction antique wooden snuff box With a great patina of

With a great patina of wear from use

with pulled pink curtain at left

Obviously with the hole in one side it cannot be used as a cup for liquid--but would be perfect for throwing dice

and I might think fairly early at that

(I especially love the rectangular stretch of darning straight down the center of Elizabeth's name plate and beyond--perhaps with a few of those letters re-embroidered too

Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction antique wooden snuff box With a great patina ofI've got an obsession with representations of boxers, boxing matches, boxing rings a brutal sport, but also I think a beautiful one, as elemental and also existential as it gets. I've had a few carved push button boxing toys over the years, but this the first full blown folk art construction of a pair going at it inside a ring. One arm of each of the boxers will move manually, and both arms of the man in silver shirt. Platform, posts, and figures