Skull, Links, Compass, Flag, All Seeing Eye: Pair of Linked Locks Odd Fellows + Masonic Whimsy folk art bird including one with this brilliant

including one with this brilliant bit: "it is the mind that makes the charm / of travel or quiet / It is the mind can ever form / it's own sustaining diet

There is one split toward to bottom of the slide top lid and another on the bottom of the box but it remains very sturdy and sound

fluttery leaves behind him and spiky ones running in a diagonal to frame his leg

especially for the pin prick style lettering spelling out the maker/owner of this antique saw's name

Skull, Links, Compass, Flag, All Seeing Eye: Pair of Linked Locks Odd Fellows + Masonic Whimsy folk art bird including one with this brilliantA fun whimsy for an Odd Fellow, of a Freemason, or better yet both, with three links (FLT) on one lock, below a skull and cross, I believe identifying it specifically as Odd Fellows, while the square and compass on the other identifies it as Masonic. (It was not at all uncommon for men to belong to both, as was surely the case here.) Plus an all seeing eye with very fluttery eyelashes, and an American flag too. And with the carved locks themselves