Wonderful Old Multi-chamber Folk Art Bee Box with Peep Holes, Complete vintage bowling handwritten

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I found this one in one of my favorite shops in New Hampshire—a place that feels like a cabinet of curiosities

****Newly available as the buyer who claimed this disappeared

making me wonder if it might be possible this was made a hundred years prior to that

but I found it like this

Wonderful Old Multi-chamber Folk Art Bee Box with Peep Holes, Complete vintage bowling handwrittenI've had a good handful of homemade bee boxes pass through my hands, but this one I believe is my favorite, and definitely the most elaborate and finely crafted, with four chambers, sliding dividers between them, peep hole windows, and turning locks to hold parts in place however they are positioned. One of the great beauties and delights of bee boxes is that one almost never finds the same construction twice nearly all, it seems, represent an