Colorful c. 1940s Match Book Folk Art Ring/Tray man and seal 500 treatments daily

500 treatments daily

erupting like lava indeed against the rich brown ground

He was a surveyor

as there should be inside a box with a heart

and the wooden palette looks never to have been used

Colorful c. 1940s Match Book Folk Art Ring/Tray man and seal 500 treatments dailyI don't come across these very often, but am always happy when I do akin in many ways to tramp prison art creations woven of old cigarette packs. This was made of matchbooks, and quite a colorful collection of them, with few to no repeats from what I can see, bits of text showing here and there. I presume originally made as the surround for a removable ashtray, but now a nice bowl to house a collection of, say, old clay marbles! (I had a handful of