Unusual Carved Burl Folk Art Box with Two Moon Like Faces (One Inside!) sequential narrative drawings but the velvet looks hand-dyed/hand-painted

but the velvet looks hand-dyed/hand-painted  to me

so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks

everyone covets old primitive boards

8 3/4" long x 5 15/16" wide x 1 1/8" deep

which shows a small loss at lower right but I’d leave just as is

Unusual Carved Burl Folk Art Box with Two Moon Like Faces (One Inside!) sequential narrative drawings but the velvet looks hand-dyed/hand-paintedI purchased this wonderful box this summer from a dealer in Pennsylvania and wanted to live with it a bit! He thought perhaps Victorian era; I might guess is 1920s 40s, but am not completely sure, nor I am certain of its origins. It feels a bit miraculous to me though, the way this face is carved into the burl, making perfect use of the color variation, and with the grain of the burl itself giving waves to the hair and then stippled carving on the