1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac cup with animal head This one is signed Marshall

This one is signed Marshall J

I could look at this one all day

revealing guts comprised of little scraps of all sorts of bright colored fabrics and threads

but I find it pretty transcendent

I would think 1940s or so

1787 Brass Iserlohn Box Impressed with Rune Calendar / Perpetual Almanac cup with animal head This one is signed MarshallFascinating! 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