Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio This small carving is made

This small carving is made of ancient fossilized brain coral (Symphillia

I especially like the flip side

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

9 3/4" long x 5 1/8" wide x 2" tall

There is a small loss to one edge of the muddling end that looks to have occurred long ago

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio This small carving is madeInexplicable, and rather uncanny, too this is a cigar box collection of toy weapons, which someone treated like butterflies, carefully arranging and mounting with estucheon pins to the inside of a cigar box, cotton batting underneath, just as if rare specimens. An art project, or a personal obsession, I have no idea but I like the idea that a series of action figures (GI Joe, etc.) were systematically disarmed and their guns and grenades safely locked