Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) spill vase There are a few inherent

There are a few inherent imperfections to the glazing around the neck

but can't quite figure out the location not one the reverse

with irregularities and some unevenness in the crusty white glaze

carved of pine with a fantastic patina now

exactly right and not a thing more

Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) spill vase There are a few inherentThis 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