Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery I always keep an eye

I always keep an eye out for early examples of these

so my attraction to this is as an object--though of course it could be reanimated with new mechanics and set to work keeping time again

furniture and fixtures carefully cut from catalogs or advertisements and pasted in

Just a little carved pair of German Ergebirge cows--because who can ever have too many little animals

Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery I always keep an eyeThere is no universe in which I would not bring these home with me, though I would love it if there were twice or ten times as many eggs inside this old tin. I found these in New Hampshire, but the Prairie Chicken egg, in addition to identifying it as such, notes the location: Grove Hill, Shelby County, Iowa, and the year of its collection, 1883. Nine eggs here, seven of them with hand inked names, in order: Guinea, Pigeon, Crow (my favorite), Prairie