Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit carved wooden book he really looks like quite

he really looks like quite good humored

With each of its long legs attached with a cluster of old nails

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

which someone loved enough to have professionally framed

with that round and deep lower half offset by its dramatically sloping lid which doubles as a handle

Old Handmade Divided Interior SCREWS Box with Mysterious Slit carved wooden book he really looks like quiteIt'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