1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal These geometrically patterned candleholders

These geometrically patterned candleholders

Some of my very favorite things hanging on my walls are textiles

Look at his striped purple tights

already holding three arrows

Detailed photos give truest sense of color

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac folk art pedestal These geometrically patterned candleholdersFascinating! 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