For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase 13 3/4 l x 5

13 3/4 l x 5 w x 11 1/8" t

With a super warm patina to pine and carefully hand-carved stars highlighted with red paint

created in 1985 by “Ogden Cocktail Construction Co (with recipes by K McCarthy and approved by friends Gary

strap long enough to wear cross-body

I especially love the border of tiny little arrows and the wonderful sculptural berry shaped handle at the center

For Get Me Not, Charming c. Early 20th C. Folk Art Spruce Gum Box bedside vase 13 3/4 l x 5Found in Tennessee but probably Maine in origin, this is a c. early 20th century book shaped spruce gum box. (More below re. spruce gum boxes). You know I love a book shaped anything, and love tokens of all sorts, and naive drawings too, and this is all rolled into one, with a horseshoe and flowers and wonderful spelling of "For get," too! Associated with logging and lumbering activities, spruce gum boxes, also known as gum books, were usually carved