SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn with "hook" that folds out

with "hook" that folds out to be used to pull one's laces tight

with one small bend in the tin at the narrow end

with the arching piece meant to be a manger

and gilding too

Clearly I've got words and language on my brain this week--plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine--so here's this lovely

SOLD Pipes, Cigar Box, Opium Pouch, Antique Trompe l'Oeil Style Oil on Canvas Still Life handdrawn with "hook" that folds outI've got a particular penchant for paintings of pipes that I think is grounded with Magritte. This trompe l'oeil style oil on canvas is not tightly painted enough to fool anyone, which perhaps makes it especially Magritte ian! I take that for an opium pouch at right, with what I presume is meant to be yellow silk at top and then a red tie, and then a couple of cigars kind of awkwardly poking out from inside the box? And a corn cob pipe at near left,