Diminutive Old Hand-Carved Green-Gray Stone Miniature Folk Art Book mid-century modern ashtray and all I can see

and all I can see is a nude woman with side boobs

barely if at all visible when placed in the frame

but I sure love him

also known as the "Pennsy

Visible from the back side are the assembled props - a ladder

Diminutive Old Hand-Carved Green-Gray Stone Miniature Folk Art Book mid-century modern ashtray and all I can seeThere are certainly much larger and fancier old marble stone carved books out there, but I like the small scale and humbleness of this one, which would be perfect as the topper of a graduated stack. Carved of a variegated stone, soapstone I believe, with incised details around the perimeters of the front and back "covers" and across the spine, with crosses at the corners and recessed "pages". Found in Lancaster County PA, late 19th early 20th century