Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring moving parts The bottle is dated 1953

The bottle is dated 1953

I believe this was made to function as a vesta rather than as a snuff box

quite a charming one I think

I believe this wonderful vintage turned wood trinket box with hand-painted fish on top is likely one of a kind

and is a beautiful thing now for having endured

Lovely Small Collection of Early Paper Rewards of Merit with Hand-coloring moving parts The bottle is dated 1953My love for antique rewards of merit is ever growing (and I've just order a used copy of the definitive book on them, by Patricia Fenn and Alfred P. Malpa) but it is mostly ones from the earlier rather than the late 19th century that I'm interested in. I bought a larger lot of them at a show last week in order to get these lovelies, and this group of six seemed a nice small group to list as a set, I believe the right center and right lower one the