Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina native carving with hatching in blue and

with hatching in blue and black/gray ink and what appears to be crayon for the other colors

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with some paint loss as pictured

I can never resist old Schoenhut Circus furniture when I come across it--the pedestals and chairs they made I think were just terrific

Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina native carving with hatching in blue andThis is a very simple one as far as bee boxes go nothing more than a four sided box with two plates of glass held in grooves, to slide open or closed for catch or release. There are rows of old nail holes in the wood, so perhaps there was once some sort of frame around it, but maybe more likely the wood was repurposed from something else. I love these old bee boxes for the way that they embody individualistic solutions to the problem at hand (in this