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

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

I've actually started using calipers to measure round and roundish things

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

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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