Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! guardian Ink and pencil on rag

Ink and pencil on rag paper

I'm especially curious about the yellow slicker form to his left

) I come across small Native American bark boxes decorated with porcupine quills now and then

and this is a nicely aged

Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! guardian Ink and pencil on ragI 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