Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium Long sides measure 5 3/4"

Long sides measure 5 3/4" long

it measures 1 1/4" wide x 1 1/8" tall x 1/4" deep

and I would think late 19th or early 20th century

with ceramic yellow-glazed beads interspersed

Beautiful Book Shaped Inlaid Folk Art Box with Bone Birds and Snake american herbarium Long sides measure 5 3/4"A stunner! It's the pair of birds perched on one split branch with snake wrapped around it that drew me to this beautiful box at first (I suppose it could be a worm, but it has a split tongue, so I do think a snake) carved of bone I believe and perhaps sailor made. But then every inch of this box holds further charms, revealing itself to be shaped like a book, and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges, and a bone push button closure on