Folk Art Fishing Lure Box with Fish (and Five Interior Boxes) antique Burmese betel box including baskets

including baskets

and made super special by the horse head at center

with a little horizontal rippling to the paper and a sort of halo pale orange around it

with impossibly fine

It would make sense for wartime use that the lid be attached via chain to prevent losing it--and happily this yielded these gorgeous weld marks attaching the chain to the lid and back of the vessel

Folk Art Fishing Lure Box with Fish (and Five Interior Boxes) antique Burmese betel box including basketsI really love this one, most of all for the starry eyed fish on its face, looking rather as if sporting a mohawk and an overbite, but also for its great old green paint and the surprise of five smaller slide top boxes fit nearly inside surely intended for holding lures, but now good for all sorts of things. It looks like the interior boxes once had pulls (I'd guess maybe just pins nails), which one could easily add again, and would guess if anything