Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture I'm thinking to add one

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

With wonderfully visceral hand-stitching in sinew holding the sides together

I purchased this one at an antiques show in Maine from a dealer who had had it in her personal collection for many years

while it was the pips of the numbered cards that were transformed/incorporated into images

though perhaps more just a showcase of skills

Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture I'm thinking to add oneI 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