Colorful c. 1940s Match Book Folk Art Ring/Tray mixing bowl and with a nicely carved

and with a nicely carved tail wrapping around to one side

This is larger than the size one typically sees

one stained black the other left alone

which identify the subject as the facade of Château d'Annecy (a castle in the old French town of Annecy) and suggest it was painted on the spot

conflating Italia and Lady Liberty herself

Colorful c. 1940s Match Book Folk Art Ring/Tray mixing bowl and with a nicely carvedI don't come across these very often, but am always happy when I do akin in many ways to tramp prison art creations woven of old cigarette packs. This was made of matchbooks, and quite a colorful collection of them, with few to no repeats from what I can see, bits of text showing here and there. I presume originally made as the surround for a removable ashtray, but now a nice bowl to house a collection of, say, old clay marbles! (I had a handful of