Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century plumes and crayons on the the un-raised sections

on the the un-raised sections of the spine

and maybe even a few shaped like Victorian ladies boots

then 12 pages at the end with suns and moons and ebbs and tides and a few misc

with what looks to be a little water staining/red paint bleed at lower right

It's nice and substantial

Unusual Antique Hand-carved Fragment Mirror Vesta with Slide Openings at Both Ends, Presumed Earlier 19th Century plumes and crayons on the the un-raised sectionsAn unusual little box, found in Lancaster County, the scale and shape of a vesta, which I think it was carved to be, but unusual for having slide openings on both ends. I presume it was the fragment of mirror that gave cause to the carving the box a precious thing, not to go to waste and were the box empty of matches, I presume the mirror could be used to spark a fire. I also presume the twice recessed long side of the box was meant for striking said