Set of Three Old Folk Art Carved Books, One Stone + Two Wood figure in topcoat sewing supplies (I found it

sewing supplies (I found it filled with old buttons)

And indeed it would have been--traditionally used in a wedding ceremony

with the pedestal base making a trivet underneath it unnecessary

but definitely this produced some sort of elephant

attached very similarly to the handle in this one

Set of Three Old Folk Art Carved Books, One Stone + Two Wood figure in topcoat sewing supplies (I found itIn the span of a week I found a series of five carved marble and wooden books two large ones, posted last week, and then these three small ones, which I think are quite nice to together so am listings as a set. The olive and brown stone of the marble one is really beautiful, and I especially love the gilding to the "pages" of the larger wood one. (And the three carved bands on the spines of both of those make them especially nice together.) I do