1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac cup with animal head I could look at this

I could look at this one all day

and beauty marks

on ruled paper with an embossed "Congress" mark at top corner

maker of both duck decoys and fishing decoys

This one is signed Marshall J

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac cup with animal head I could look at thisFascinating! 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