Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) hand-drawn birds 10” l x 2” w

10” l x 2” w x 2” d and in very good condition

Quite a cast of characters whatever the case

but am pretty sure it was taken at Old Orchard Beach in southern Maine

and her work within the emerging modernist art scene of the early 20th century

Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) hand-drawn birds 10” l x 2” wI 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