Book Shaped Brass Folk Art / Trench Art Snuff Box with Combination Lock Dials pattern drawing (Maybe that's just me

(Maybe that's just me

and this great old egg basket is I believe the largest one of it's kind I've seen and can be configured in all sorts of ways

) Clearly they were specifically made as a child's set

jam packed with marvelous details that make it super singular and

I just double checked and it was in 1910 that engineer Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first pair of audio headphones resembling modern day pairs (at his kitchen table)

Book Shaped Brass Folk Art / Trench Art Snuff Box with Combination Lock Dials pattern drawing (Maybe that's just meI love this thing. My theory is that it is a folk trench art creation modeled on Dutch and English combination lock dialed snuff boxes of the 18th and 19th century (one photo at the end as example.) Those were more refined and the dialing locking mechanisms concealed, while here it's all revealed on the interior of the lid. I love it precisely for this homespun ness, and of course for being shaped like a little book, and for the pleasure of turning