Unusual Early American Folk Art Still Bank detailed wooden box especially due to the smooth

especially due to the smooth black fabric inside

This is a wonderful antique Javanese Wayang Kulit shadow puppet who resembles the famous character of "Bagong

Sold as a pair

There is a hairline split to the end of the beak

Unusual Early American Folk Art Still Bank detailed wooden box especially due to the smoothThis is quite an old one, early 19th c. American believe, and also an unusual one, with a whimsy sort of feel, and also a sense of mystery about it. It is a carved still bank, which also feels like a piece of tabletop architecture, with round cylinder at the center framed by three "walls" and two posts, and with a sliding slat that pulls out to expose the slit for dropping coins inside. I find it curiously compelling, and like a distillation of the