MOTHER, Extra Folky Old Match Stick Tramp Art Box with Polka Dot Interior and Rich Patina standing figure better in person and changing

better in person and changing as the light hits the silver and gold foil

" late 18th/early 19th c

No flaws in coiling

So this vintage homemade stereoview capturing a view of the historical marker outside their Littleton factory is a very knowing sort of homage

and very early ones certainly most of all--so beautiful

MOTHER, Extra Folky Old Match Stick Tramp Art Box with Polka Dot Interior and Rich Patina standing figure better in person and changingThere are neat and crisp match stick boxes and then there are soulful old folk art boxes constructed of matchsticks, and this is very much the latter. I know match sticks creations were often made in prisons, though not exclusively this one, with cross at center and dedicated to MOTHER, has the feeling of prison art to me, but I don't know for sure. An old one and a very folky one whatever the case, with those flowers to either side of the the T in