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

I have put a matte over it approximately matching the cream color of the paper and put it in a simple

4 3/4” x 3 7/8” x 1/2”

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with a couple of tiny hairline cracks that don't go all the way through and some dryness to the wood

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