1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac orange bell for some years back in

for some years back in the day

and still charming

perhaps in making use of a compass among other things

which further blurs the distinction between water and land

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac orange bell for some years back inFascinating! 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