Sweet and Self-Reflexive Old Match Covered Match Box handmade model railroad Plus great hand-painted red lettering

Plus great hand-painted red lettering (carefully drawn in pencil with a straight edge first) on old oyster white paint on what looks to be quite an old wood board with rusty bent nails down the center of the back

poignant perfection

Hand-marbled paper over hard covers

11 x 7 1/2 x 10 1/8” t and in very good condition

with white paper buttons to boot

Sweet and Self-Reflexive Old Match Covered Match Box handmade model railroad Plus great hand-painted red letteringOf course an old match box should be encased in matches, each one burned black before being carefully laid down alongside the one before it. To my eye quite a satisfying thing formally, and even better self reflexive I'l like to think it was the matches from this very Red & White Brand match box that were used to make it, yielding the empty box! 5 1 8" x 3" x 1 3 4". Very good condition. C. 1940s or so, I believe.