Lovingly Carved (and Painted) Old Folk Art Slide Lid Blades Box printmaking pattern or sea moss

or sea moss

and especially right for spelling out ABOMINATION and (UN)PUNISHED

7 1/2" x 2 x 5/8"

it's nice for just propping somewhere balanced on its pointy end (it just needs to lean lightly against something) or tie a ribbon around the other end and hang on the wall

The glass shows a (to my eye) wonderful pattern of surface scratching over the green (but not much the cream) squares

Lovingly Carved (and Painted) Old Folk Art Slide Lid Blades Box printmaking pattern or sea mossPhotos do no justice to this sweet old hand carved slide lid box; details give a better sense of the care invested in (quite delicately) carving BLADES in relief down one side, with carved flourishes above and below the letters too. Then three X's painted across the reverse side (making me think it may have been Xacto blades it held) and yellow squares with green outlines on the short ends. Quite a special feeling one for holding knives or razor