Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ST Based on a second drawing

Based on a second drawing I found inside the frame I removed it from

and this would be the ultimate guide to doing so

It shows an old water stain that covers his nose

A great warm brown

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Antique Folk Art Paint Decorated Book Shaped Box with Snake Surprise! ST Based on a second drawingI'm forever on the hunt for these but they're hard to find, especially a good old one still functioning and even more so with such a brilliantly painted snake inside. Of the perfect scale, too. Plenty of wear to the paint stain on the exterior of the carved book shaped box, but some nice red and green painted detail at the corners still holding on, and most all of that best green on the sides and slide. Works very smoothly, and by sticking just a