Shaw + Nodder 1792 Ambystoma Mexicanum (Mole Salamander) Hand-Colored Copper Engraving vintage cloth doll I didn't realize quite how

I didn't realize quite how great this box was until I went to pack up a whole bunch of odds and ends of a variety of shapes and sizes---they all  wound up fitting neatly and safely inside of it

which looks to me perhaps original to it

Switzerland

Under glass in original period frame

There is one tiny chip at the lip

Shaw + Nodder 1792 Ambystoma Mexicanum (Mole Salamander) Hand-Colored Copper Engraving vintage cloth doll I didn't realize quite howThis is a striking and wonderfully surreal looking hand colored Shaw and Nodder copper engraving of a Mole Salamader, or Ambystoma Mexicanum, dated 1792. Recently, I found a couple of Shaw and Nodder engravings that had been enhanced with additional watercoloring and annotation by a holder of them in the first half of the 19th century; that is not the case here, but those heightened my awareness of them, and then I found this one in Vermont this week.