Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit carved wooden book A few months ago I

A few months ago I found the metal skeleton of a wind-up bear toy just like this one--a very beautiful thing in its stripped down state

9 3/4" t x 1 15/16" w x 2 1/8" d

he really looks like quite good humored

which someone loved enough to have professionally framed

Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit carved wooden book A few months ago IIt's the SCREWS crudely carved into the top of this box, with a pocket knife I'd guess, that makes me love it, and even more so in combination with this mysterious small slit cut through the lid, which seems just the right size to accommodate a folded up paper ballot. As such, it seems "screws" might take on a double meaning as if one imagined that the outcome of the election would, say, leave them screwed, or if they believed all the candidates were