Super Folky Old Handmade Bee Box with Removable Queen Bee Carrier and Rich Patina drawing on rice paper which can be peeled off

which can be peeled off with a little effort)

with the aim of this one being getting all the gold pegs to where the silver ones are and vice verse

which was such a gem I went back to the seller in Russia to buy two more larger in scale

with a range of sizes and varieties

The box I believe dates to the late 19th/very early 20th century or so

Super Folky Old Handmade Bee Box with Removable Queen Bee Carrier and Rich Patina drawing on rice paper which can be peeled offI found this old bee box at the end of an almost completely fruitless day poking around southern Maine last weekend but it alone made the day worthwhile, to my sensibilities really a great one. About as primitive as it gets, but clearly it did its job effectively, as the patina to the interior of this box a rich mix of beeswax and grime and who know what all attests to many years of housing bees inside. What I especially like is how the queen bee