19th Century French Tole Painted Bait (Leurre) Box vintage card game vintage word game I love the history of

I love the history of gestures and body language as a vocabulary

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which is invariably full of fine and unusual things

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His backside shows a hairline crack running vertically

19th Century French Tole Painted Bait (Leurre) Box vintage card game vintage word game I love the history ofI love the form of a old tin bait box, with straps on the curved side for wearing on a belt, but I'd never come across an antique French one like this, stencil painted in excellent red and silver, with "Leurre" (lure) arching above a charmer of a fish. With punched holes in the form of a cross on the flip up lid. 6" l x 3" d (measured on the square) x 2" t. Plenty worn and dinged, with paint loss especially to the edges of top, where it was clearly