Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere jack dempsey The cards are in excellent

The cards are in excellent condition

which makes me think it might be a Japanese Natsuke (an ornamental togglelike piece used to attach a box

smile and circle skirt

with a raffia loop already attached for hanging on the wall

I would guess some sort of closure was originally planned for this but not completed

Wonderful Antique Hand-carved Heart Shaped Box with Scalloped Edges Everywhere jack dempsey The cards are in excellentOne of a number of hearts this week; I think even more than ever I am looking for tokens of love these days, to surround oneself with as buffers against so much harshness. And what a beauty of antique hand carved heart shaped box, radiating a whole lot of love and care (and time!) invested in its making. I've really never seen another this scale and with so detailed; more often one sees smaller, simpler versions (I have a second listed today that