Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection dried beetle founder of Northwood Pottery

founder of Northwood Pottery

and relative strangeness of this one

There is one interior plate that fits neatly inside one of the trays

she essentially shimmies a bit in a seductive sort of come hither

The seller—a consistent source of wonderful old things

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection dried beetle founder of Northwood PotteryInexplicable, and rather uncanny, too this is a cigar box collection of toy weapons, which someone treated like butterflies, carefully arranging and mounting with estucheon pins to the inside of a cigar box, cotton batting underneath, just as if rare specimens. An art project, or a personal obsession, I have no idea but I like the idea that a series of action figures (GI Joe, etc.) were systematically disarmed and their guns and grenades safely locked