Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid carved jointed ballerina but I think a really

but I think a really lovely thing

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which I would guess date from the the 1940s or earlier

and which makes the yellow glass eyes really pop

Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid carved jointed ballerina but I think a reallyJust 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