1884 Handwritten Letter with Butterfly and Rich History, Jackson NH bone and ebony domino I can't resist earthy

I can't resist earthy

I really love the way this box was designed (in 1884)--unfolding in a sequence

Interpretation: If you currently resent the need to distrust someone

Photos don't do justice to the sculptural beauty and emphatic presence of this primitive old wooden stool

or to smash a piñata

1884 Handwritten Letter with Butterfly and Rich History, Jackson NH bone and ebony domino I can't resist earthyThis makes me happy for all sorts of reasons, the first and most obvious being the tiger swallowtail butterfly hand stitched to the top of it tethered just about 140 years ago, with those two crossed stitches holding it still. "Here is a butter fly. I helped to catch. I have seen twenty of these on the road in one spot," writes the sender to "Robbie" on June 22, 1884, in the carefully printed handwriting of a child, probably of age 10 or 11. Adding to