William Steig’s Persistent Faces 1945 First Edition pressed birch bark but closer inspection reveals it

but closer inspection reveals it is definitely bone

Not until I got home did I give it a close look and realize that its canopy is made entirely of painstakingly folded Winton cigarette packs

making me think maybe a snuff box instead

I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf)

William Steig’s Persistent Faces 1945 First Edition pressed birch bark but closer inspection reveals itA great one from 1945 by New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator and childrens book writer William Steig, featuring 91 line drawn caricature portraits of types from "the Tool" to "the Investor" to the "Merry Widow", "Fall Guy", "Boy Scout", "Ambulance Chaser". etc. This was Steigs fourth book of "symbolic drawings," expressing what he called "the psychopathology of everyday life." A great gift for ones favorite keen observer of character, or for the coffee