Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction antique wooden snuff box (I especially love the rectangular

(I especially love the rectangular stretch of darning straight down the center of Elizabeth's name plate and beyond--perhaps with a few of those letters re-embroidered too

These are SUPER rare

With a great patina of wear from use

with the paper cuts traditionally used as decorations for windows

as if ready to serve her--or ask her to marry him

Boxers in the Ring with Arms Swinging, Mid 20th Century Carved Folk Art Construction antique wooden snuff box (I especially love the rectangularI've got an obsession with representations of boxers, boxing matches, boxing rings a brutal sport, but also I think a beautiful one, as elemental and also existential as it gets. I've had a few carved push button boxing toys over the years, but this the first full blown folk art construction of a pair going at it inside a ring. One arm of each of the boxers will move manually, and both arms of the man in silver shirt. Platform, posts, and figures