Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio sturdy and stable and great

sturdy and stable and great looking

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

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

There is a small loss to one edge of the muddling end that looks to have occurred long ago

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

Butterfly-esque Cigar Box Toy Gun Collection Lucian Vogel portfolio sturdy and stable and greatInexplicable, 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