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

lifts to reveal a patterned fabric lining

There is paper just below the fabric

As detailed on the inside of the front cover

Apart from the simple straight "sticks"

12" t x 6 3/4" and in very good condition

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