Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug and might guess they were

and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection

song birds

takes its inspiration from the poem by Alexander Pope reproduced below

and I'd guess it dates to the early 20th century

I might guess 1950s or so but am not entirely sure

Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug and might guess they wereJust a chunky old small wooden box, which looks perhaps to have held drill bits at some point, but which I really love for its carved tombstone style sliding lid, which for me at least turns it into a potential stage of sorts, which one might turn on its side and slide the lid up on like a theater curtain to reveal a surprise inside! (Maybe that's just me! But there is a notch mid way up on the face of the box that will hold the lid open at the mid