Elaborate Victorian Waxwork Valentine Diorama: Glass Domed Forest Scene with Man and Deer treen apple measuring tape including a bit of paint

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

but a great thing just to have hanging on the wall the rest of the time

and the pulls appear to be brass

Perhaps more loudly than any other I've had

Elaborate Victorian Waxwork Valentine Diorama: Glass Domed Forest Scene with Man and Deer treen apple measuring tape including a bit of paintA bit of a challenge to photograph, but to my eye and sensibilities rather a magical thing! There is a fascinating history of wax modeling on the British blog, Gardens Trust (https: thegardenstrust. blog 2019 08 24 the agreeable occupation of imitating nature), which includes discussion of Victorian wax valentine dioramas like this one, which were created largely by women of leisure and which grew out of earlier 19th century wax modeling of flowers