Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) assembled with a small hanger nailed

with a small hanger nailed to the back

which have been sewn together with black thread

A bit of loss and light wear as documented

just because they have great forms

And then above the mounted photo

Delight-filled Discovery: John Wanamaker Antique Wax Flower Maker's Box with Pigments and Many Envelopes Filled with Cut Paper Templates (Read!) assembled with a small hanger nailedThis is way cool, and we're definitely not going to come across another like it anytime soon, or ever. It is a distinctly Victorian, 1870s to be precise, kit for making wax flowers (of the sort to be placed inside "parlour domes" and given pride of place in the Victorian parlor). Included in the box is a dozen envelopes, each labeled by hand with the name of one or more flowers, and each containing one or several folded paper packets inside of which