Cigar Box City Tower colored ink drawing and around the edges)

and around the edges)

terminating in fabulous tall black boots

This little curiosity is one of my favorite finds ever--and a pretty rare and precious one from what I have found

to produce various effects

an Austrian popularizer of natural history

Cigar Box City Tower colored ink drawing and around the edges)Such a charmer of a piece of folk architecture I think, resourcefully made of cigar box wood and exuberantly painted in a yellow grid with graphite drawn front door (and tiny clock overhead) and window panes, which offer a view of the stairs zig zagging diagonally from top to bottom on one short side. I'm not sure if there was ever a base to match the roof it doesn't appear so, and as is the open bottom would allow one to stash some secret things