He was businessman (Curtis & Marble Company) and one of the foremost historic glass cup plate collectors in America (a genre of glass plates featuring historic portraits (busts)
(Forgive my not great photos here taken in crummy lighting
and will continue to scoop them up when I can because I find them such beautiful things
I'd probably put a tiny hook on the back and hang it on the wall
Mexico stamped on the underside
Romeo Y Julieta, Betty Heredia Snyder Rees Sculpted Clay Lovers On Cigar Box Charles rudy He was businessman (Curtis &I purchased this one from a dealer in Maine, who had a number of works that had come from the estate of Elizabeth Heredia Snyder Rees (1919 2011) not an artist I was familiar with, and much of her work not really my cup of tea, but I found and find this pretty wonderful, and clever, too: a pair of lovers rendered in modeling clay atop an old Cuban Romeo Y Julieta cigar box, with the box doing quadruple duty as a base, and a stand, and as inspiration