Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history but this I believe is

but this I believe is by far the loveliest

and which I think are just right and just terrific

On the backside is paper stamp dated 1916

first published in 1909

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake Maine history but this I believe isA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on