1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal and I think it very

and I think it very likely portrays Ann on her wedding day (wedding photos would not have been possible

Detailed photos give truest sense of color

already holding three arrows

all the more for trials he's surely been through

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal and I think it veryFascinating! This is a brass snuff tobacco box dated 1787, which I found in Maine but I believe is Swedish, made by a C. Norman and titled EN BESTANDIG ALMANACH RUNSTAVEN FRSVENSKAD (Permanent Almanac Runic calendar.). Each side portrays half the year, month by month, together completing the year, with very densely packed rows of letters, numbers and symbols marking the days (letters A G correspond to the seven days of the week), numbers mixed in