Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers brush with light wood handle Lifting off the lid reveals

Lifting off the lid reveals the basket's cedar bark lip as well as its fully saturated original colors

and this one has a slash in the lid so to be used as a still bank

I found these paper thin brass architect's/draftsman's stencils along with the rooms and plans set I just listed

dating to 1828

With beautiful large text lettering and sixteen hand-colored illustrations

Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers brush with light wood handle Lifting off the lid revealsA pretty little Scandinavian birch bark box with leather pull nice age to it and a few painted flowers on the lid, too. These were traditionally made by members of the Smi or Saami culture, indigenous Finno Ugric people inhabiting northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula, historically known in English as Lapps or Laplanders who used birch bark for everything from boxes to buoys. This one would have been made for the tourist trade, 1st