1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac orange bell and stands up straight on

and stands up straight on her own

and still charming

perhaps in making use of a compass among other things

hoops dangling from her ears

for some years back in the day

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac orange bell and stands up straight onFascinating! 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