1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal in addition to the images

in addition to the images these varied marks forms

but I'm sure this is the former

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

These geometrically patterned candleholders

Some of my very favorite things hanging on my walls are textiles

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal in addition to the imagesFascinating! 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