Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art / Tramp Art Box With Birds and Interior Lined with Quack Medicine Advertisement vintage hammer toy 9: tall x 5 3/8"

9: tall x 5 3/8" wide x 4 1/2" deep (not including quills) and in very good vintage condition

which would read in full "Pat'd June 17

are in excellent

It is just as beautiful inside

but mostly because I love all of the effort and care put into making little things like this

Wonderful 19th Century Folk Art / Tramp Art Box With Birds and Interior Lined with Quack Medicine Advertisement vintage hammer toy 9: tall x 5 3/8"A marvelous antique folk art box, made in part of salvaged crate wood, with a lid that opens up, a drawer that pulls out, and terrific hand carved decoration all over, best of all these pairs of birds on the sides with tails overlapping. And the interior of the top section is lined with old newspaper which close inspection reveals is advertising quack medic Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy (c. 1880s 90s) with portraits of several