Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel lifts to reveal a patterned

lifts to reveal a patterned fabric lining

--and all the better a little silver one

Spine and cover much worn as evident

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

As detailed on the inside of the front cover

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection studio pottery vessel lifts to reveal a patternedInexplicable, 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