Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) assembled which have been sewn together

which have been sewn together with black thread

And then above the mounted photo

as we wait and worry wondering whether our mail will ever arrive

uncleaned condition

just because they have great forms

Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) assembled which have been sewn togetherThis is way cool, and we're definitely not going to come across another like it anytime soon, or ever. It is a distinctly Victorian, 1870s to be precise, kit for making wax flowers (of the sort to be placed inside "parlour domes" and given pride of place in the Victorian parlor). Included in the box is a dozen envelopes, each labeled by hand with the name of one or more flowers, and each containing one or several folded paper packets inside of which