Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake photo statue I'd guess the drawing dates

I'd guess the drawing dates to the late 19th century or so

Fern--at any rate

like most one sees

This is that

but I really love speculating about it

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake photo statue I'd guess the drawing datesA stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on