Wonderful Little Old Hand-carved Wooden Wall Box Don Curreri vase became the first fraternal organization

became the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the US Congress after careful investigation by President Abraham Lincoln

side by side

extending up along the edges and attached by thread wound through pierced holes

with each suit corresponding to a continent

presumably representing the trunk of a tree

Wonderful Little Old Hand-carved Wooden Wall Box Don Curreri vase became the first fraternal organizationThis time of year picking can feel pretty scarce, but finding this little wall box yesterday made an outing that otherwise turned up very little worth the trip I love this thing, which to my sensibility is the perfect combination of humble and super folky, with an A++ for effort invested in making it special. I love that the hanging back is not at all symmetrical, nor quite is the decoration carved into it, and then this great star carved into the