SOLD Great Old Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Passive Snake Inside! captioned photo It measures 4 1/4" x

It measures 4 1/4" x 1 7/8" w x 1 1/4" t

There is some glare caught in photos

A true treasure

The linen backing and needlework itself has held up extremely well and appears almost completely intact

with glass for the windows (inset into carved niches visible on the interior) painted with black crosses for windows and bordered on the bottom with black painted bits of wood

SOLD Great Old Carved Folk Art Book Shaped Box with Passive Snake Inside! captioned photo It measures 4 1/4" xI purchased this one from a wonderful dealer in Pennsylvania, and believe that is quite likely where it originated, early 20th century would be my guess, though it could be a little older than that. There is a tiny hole in the slide that once would have attached via string or fine wire to the snake inside (with stained black arching neck and wonderful little nailed eyes and iron tongue) and pulled it forth to deliver a surprise to the opener! That