Stars, Moon, Sun, Arrow, ?, Fabulous Antique Heavily Decorated Folk Art Razors Box moma staring right back at us

staring right back at us

But it would also be great on his or her parents' dresser

and I would think late 19th or early 20th century

but this orange won me

Stars, Moon, Sun, Arrow, ?, Fabulous Antique Heavily Decorated Folk Art Razors Box moma staring right back at usOne of my favorite finds at the Rhinebeck show, purchased from a Maine based dealer who always has wonderful things. And the warm energy around this box is of a magical sort. I believe it was made as a box to hold folding straight razors, and I have a hunch it was the box of someone who delivered shaves for a living perhaps a train station barber, very common in the late 19th early 20th century, with the box feeling to me close kin to a folk art shoe