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

sturdy and stable and great looking

the wire holds the propeller tight to the mounting piece

This small carving is made of ancient fossilized brain coral (Symphillia

I've actually started using calipers to measure round and roundish things

4 3/4” x 3 7/8” x 1/2”

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