Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! guardian otherwise pretty perfect

otherwise pretty perfect

Ink and pencil on rag paper

and this is a nicely aged

) Two rivets on the inside of the spout hold the tin addition firmly in place

and perhaps it was her teacher who wrote Laura at bottom left

Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! guardian otherwise pretty perfectI was sold on this beautiful little treen box before I even opened it looking like a very finely turned beehive bank but round and with a pedestal base. It was to my great delight to learn that is a trick box, too of the sort be performed! Opening it at the center reveals an empty interior, but opening it a couple of ribs higher ta da, there is a black orb inside! It is weighted such that that "empty" way to open it is the natural one; it takes a bit