Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush with red tree at center

with red tree at center and ambiguous

I am 99% certain it is sterling silver (if I am wrong

and think one can never have too many

I believe likely from an opposite page in the scrapbook where it was long housed

The top of the box is a tapering

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush with red tree at centerIt was suggested to me when I purchased this that it was a piece of trench art, and I think that it likely, with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap. In any case, it's certainly it's own special folk art thing, and I really love this smiling but very focused looking fellow very intent on the task at hand, which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood. Incised on both sides, and serving as a