Both Humble and Grand Old Three Tiered Cigar Box Building with Nail and String Terrace Rail shut and can be seen up

and can be seen up the exterior side if one looks for it

which I found at what is quite a good antiques show in Lititz

but I can't find one

a hole for a thimble on top of the tail

but there is something uniquely satisfying about large sets of unpainted wooden ones like this--elegant and elemental and like the pure embodiment of creative possibility

Both Humble and Grand Old Three Tiered Cigar Box Building with Nail and String Terrace Rail shut and can be seen upHumble materials but grand ambitions, put to work constructing what I take for a state house or other sort of public building of some significance. Cigar box wood, string, and nails, plus a gold painted finial nailed to the top. The green painted roof (roofs) show a good bit of aging and soiling; I did some gentle wiping and dusting (including behind those string rails) but they are as they are, probably stored in a basement or barn somewhere for some