Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery very singular old handmade measuring

very singular old handmade measuring stick/rod (pretty impossible to document well

numbers mixed in representing specific dates

so my attraction to this is as an object--though of course it could be reanimated with new mechanics and set to work keeping time again

I always keep an eye out for early examples of these

furniture and fixtures carefully cut from catalogs or advertisements and pasted in

Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery very singular old handmade measuringThere is no universe in which I would not bring these home with me, though I would love it if there were twice or ten times as many eggs inside this old tin. I found these in New Hampshire, but the Prairie Chicken egg, in addition to identifying it as such, notes the location: Grove Hill, Shelby County, Iowa, and the year of its collection, 1883. Nine eggs here, seven of them with hand inked names, in order: Guinea, Pigeon, Crow (my favorite), Prairie