Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls versatile vase

versatile vase

I've become a bit obsessed with folk objects carved from marble--the carving of stone with such formal connotations in a very unclassical manner really really appeals to me

It is signed on the bottom with what looks like "SJ" and is in great vintage condition

in an ugly newer frame

Horace and Stanley Chase's Antique Homemade Pine Box special dolls versatile vaseI'm a complete sucker for things like this, which I feel it is my calling to rescue and appreciate whether or not anyone else does. It's a (very) homemade box, I think the work of a young Horace Chase, who signed his name to one side of it, and then Stanley Chase, his younger brother I presume, took it over and signed his name to the lid, and another side, and then started in on a third. Perfectly wonky, and very sweet; feels like the sort of box in