Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box All of these signs of

All of these signs of age in this case I think only contribute to the wonderful aura of this lovely little painting

I'm guessing this old box was made for a specific purpose

without a chipped or cracked block that I can see

one mouse's plug is just little bit loose--meaning they might be safest perched on a shelf or just decoratively on the table

One does wonder what all is going on inside the “hole in the wall" pictured

Hail Stones from Great Storm of 1870, Scarce Knowlton Brothers Stereoview latched metal box All of these signs ofOne of two stereoviews today, both among my very favorites I've had. At first glance I took these for a cluster of button mushrooms, but a closer look, and the printed list on the reverse of the card, reveals these as a collection of hail stones from "the Great Storm of 1870." The compounding of the strange phenomenon that is hail with the fact of these particular hail stones having been captured as documents of a specific "Great Storm" before melting