Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! paris gallery and youthful still

and youthful still

starting in the 1940s

as I'd guess it was done in school

7 3/8" x 9"

Useful for stashing all sorts of things -- which is how I used it yesterday

Beautiful Antique Treen Magic Box! paris gallery and youthful stillI was sold on this beautiful little treen box before I even opened it looking like a very finely turned beehive bank but round and with a pedestal base. It was to my great delight to learn that is a trick box, too of the sort be performed! Opening it at the center reveals an empty interior, but opening it a couple of ribs higher ta da, there is a black orb inside! It is weighted such that that "empty" way to open it is the natural one; it takes a bit