Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait man in box or really for making an

or really for making an occasion of lighting anything

The paper is a bit brittle and there are a few small tears along the edges: one very tiny torn bit toward the bottom on the left edge and two clean tears that I didn't even notice at first as they pretty disappear when flat--one along bottom edge left

so enough for three to play

the yellow meaning caution

feeling perhaps like workers' housing

Antique Handmade Book Box with Interior Portrait man in box or really for making anI rarely meet a book shaped thing I don't like, and this feels like something of an example of not judging a book by its cover! I'm thinking there may once have been a picture of some sort adhered to the outside cover, which shows a bare spot surrounded by red paint now and perhaps that picture functioned as a sort of counterpart to the portrait print of woman in large plumed hat inside; my guess is that it turned this book box into a c. 1800 French