Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel the gore-heavy fairly tale of

the gore-heavy fairly tale of Jack and the Giants is Cornish in origin

Spine and cover much worn as evident

--and all the better a little silver one

13 7/8” t x 9” l x 11/16” thick and in very good condition

There is paper just below the fabric

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel the gore-heavy fairly tale ofInexplicable, and rather uncanny, too this is a cigar box collection of toy weapons, which someone treated like butterflies, carefully arranging and mounting with estucheon pins to the inside of a cigar box, cotton batting underneath, just as if rare specimens. An art project, or a personal obsession, I have no idea but I like the idea that a series of action figures (GI Joe, etc.) were systematically disarmed and their guns and grenades safely locked