Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities and the betel box was

and the betel box was an important object

I think it's a pretty great one

These are heavy

as I have found a few other pieces--cabinets mostly--with very very similar marquetry patterning

Signed (incised) "Allie" on the underside

Old Handmade Make Do Wood and Metal Toy Car curated curiosities and the betel box wasThis is just a little thing, but I love it so much, perhaps most of all the red star painted wheels. I am not completely sure what the metal pieces were salvaged from, but surely they had a life before becoming the sides of this little car or truck (?), nailed (with nice fat nails) to the sides of an old block of wood that forms the main body, and painted blue and red (much of which is clearly long gone.) Things like this make me very happy, just