Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls in an ugly newer frame

in an ugly newer frame

He matched his cross displays with as many—if not more—hand-painted admonitions and apocalyptic warnings such as “Hell is Hot” and “Sinners Burn in Hell

but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties--most immediately that hand printed paper cover

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I found this amazing drawing in Bangor Maine

Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls in an ugly newer frameI'm a complete sucker for things like this, which I feel it is my calling to rescue and appreciate whether or not anyone else does. It's a (very) homemade box, I think the work of a young Horace Chase, who signed his name to one side of it, and then Stanley Chase, his younger brother I presume, took it over and signed his name to the lid, and another side, and then started in on a third. Perfectly wonky, and very sweet; feels like the sort of box in