Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers swiss cheese It is a pretty fun

It is a pretty fun and clever thing--when you close the scissor

and the pencil needs sharpening

feeling like a pet but happily--to my mind at least--not an animate one

lovingly constructed of tin with its original glass in three of the four top level windows

Marked on bottom "Hand Made by David Heger N

Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers swiss cheese It is a pretty funA 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