Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter red porcelain bowls scissors holder 3 1/4" long

scissors holder 3 1/4" long

fashioned from a "long life products" tin--a fortuitous fish

While these have lost their lids formally

and carved from one piece of wood

Plenty large for storing lots of treats

Scarce 1860s Civil War Patriotic Cover, American Flag Perimeter red porcelain bowls scissors holder 3 1/4" longI am sure there are other examples of this particular Civil War era "patriotic" cover out there, but I can't find one. 34 flags, representing the 34 states at the start of the war, and with each flag, due to inconsistencies in the inking and stamping, slightly different than the next. I find this very beautiful as an object, and richly poignant as a stand alone thing now, speaking to unity and division, boundaries and borders, freedom and constraint,