Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers brush with light wood handle imagining being in that sailboat

imagining being in that sailboat on calm

over the course of more than a decade

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

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

5 1/8" l x 1 1/8" w x 1 3/4" t and in excellent vintage condition

Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers brush with light wood handle imagining being in that sailboatA 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