Sweet Small Handmade Box with Stitched In Presumed Stamp Roll Holder unusual pottery bowl it is mid-century in style

it is mid-century in style and was purchased from an estate sale that included a great collection of mid to late 20th century ceramics and studio pottery from Japan

Some aging/rusting to the surface of the tin

at the age of 19

(There is a set of smaller serving bowls from the same set listed separately

Sweet Small Handmade Box with Stitched In Presumed Stamp Roll Holder unusual pottery bowl it is mid-century in styleA curious little box, which I believe was was to hold a roll of stamps on one side and a pen in the other. (Nothing on it opens or closes, and I can't figure out another purpose it would have served.) Rolls of stamps were first issued in 1908, and I would think this dates to not much after that. I love the rows of tiny stitches on either side of the open section, holding the piece of curved blue card in place to the walls of the box, and how the whole