Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider wood duck some have been used

some have been used

with great details from that sculptural hair to bangled wrists to fancy heels

and keep scooping up boxes of old ones when I find them

Perhaps a secret snuff compartment

Just a super sweet old carved whimsy

Old Single Chamber Bee Box with Cigar Box Wood Slider wood duck some have been usedI've come to keep an eye out for old bee boxes, especially for the fact that they tend to vary widely, each one representing its individual maker's solution to the problem of capturing, releasing, and transporting bees. This one is pretty straight forward as far as they go, with just a single chamber, perhaps just for carrying a queen(?) fronted with a pane of glass and backed with a sliding door, which looks to have been cut from a cigar box, as