Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button cauldron or carved wooden animal

or carved wooden animal

with a watercolored Dutch boy and girl holding hands

and very New England coast

which does not impact smooth rolling

" but have found it pretty rare to come across one for sale

Fox and Crow, Earlyish 20th C. Brass Fable Button cauldron or carved wooden animalI don't typically buy and sell buttons, but I found this one a month or two in a shop from which I was also buying some extraordinary early embroidered trim, and just liked it perhaps especially for the fable of the fox and crow it illustrates: a warning against being vulnerable to flattery, which seems particularly relevant these days and especially apt communicated via a shiny object! Maybe the perfect if not so subtle gift for one's dear but too