Fancy copper with wooden teeth

[Old Finger]

found this out hunting today about 12 inches down. absolutely no clue what it could be. At first I thought maybe a old lighter or makeup thing but not sure. The "teeth" are made out of wood and it has a checker like design with some scroll type stuff in the conners. Completely stumped on this one so any info would be greatly appreciated as always

 

[Joe G from Md]

Maybe a match case, maybe?

 

[Old Finger]

Maybe a match case, maybe?

yea it dose look like one but the wood is what is throwing me off, looks like finger jointed stuff but why in that case

EDIT: Duhh the wood is the matches. thanks a lot. it appeared to be a solid piece of wood and after some cleaning and looking at it closer it is 100% matches and it is also brass so i was wrong 2. again that's for the info

 

[jewelerguy]

a few more pics from different sides would be helpful

 

[A2coins]

cool find