Cut Tin Folk Art Crescent Moon Match Holder toys that teach angle design 4 1/2" t x 1

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and a few Weidlers who were teachers

so I scoop them up whenever I find them--and part of the beauty of these is that the more one has

and I can't imagine any better place for these beautiful white hand-painted letters to land

I'll never pass by an antique Burmese cinnabar-colored lacquer betel box if I can afford it--which increasingly I can't

Cut Tin Folk Art Crescent Moon Match Holder toys that teach angle design 4 1/2" t x 1Like the carved horseshoe plaque I just listed, this moon shaped match holder feels friendly and fortuitous a force for good watching over one's world day and night. I really like the idea of striking a match to light a candle at the end of the day, illuminating this moon just as the one outside rises. Charming, and lovingly crafted, with a great flip side too, which shows how the match holder was joined to the hand cut moon by folded tabs. Great old