Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture Or maybe it signaled both

Or maybe it signaled both simultaneously

With this gorgeous wide band of rich mustard paint across the near-top of the spine for the title area (and a thinner band of the same at the very bottom of the spine) and various sorts of faux grain painting everywhere else

I'm thinking to add one fine stitch through the same tiny hole to shore it up before shipping

retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed

the Stock Dove

Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture Or maybe it signaled bothI though this an especially nice one for the dawn of a new year, an antique box full of wishes of sorts, yet to be wished. There is a (partial) German paper label still adhered to the underside of the lid placing its making (or at least distribution) to Nuremberg, and then the word Mariposas, which in Spanish literally translates to "butterflies," an evocative descriptor for these tiny wicks held in wooden rounds, meant to be floated on lamp oil, and