Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large sculpture like these

like these

and perhaps a few tiny chips in the mosaic tile

I think it is possible that this lovely treen box is a snuff box

Both beautifully aged and rusted

The wooden crosses--one stained green on both sides

Silver Painted Old STRING Tin (with twine inside) large sculpture like theseI'm not quite sure when this tin was painted silver and labeled with tall thin hand painted white letters reading "string," but it looks as if a good many years ago, and certainly seems product of a great depression sensibility, when string saving became a habit. The paper label still stretched across the bottom of the tin suggests it's quite an old one, I believe a tobacco tin. Found in Maine, with twine and a pencil inside, as seems just right. A