Incredibly Constructed Victorian Leather and Woven Wicker Sewing Basket with Brass Hardware wooden cat The person I bought it

The person I bought it from shared that after the death of his grandmother they found numerous Band-Aid tins in her home stuffed with cash--and indeed these tins were much saved e and used as containers for other things

Both hand-colored

I've shot it a few different ways--the views from an angle are more accurate

this being the latest

Incredibly Constructed Victorian Leather and Woven Wicker Sewing Basket with Brass Hardware wooden cat The person I bought itI think the construction on this antique sewing basket c. 1887, based on one other example I've found out there with a registration sticker still attached is just amazing, making it feel like the Gucci of baskets! With leather wrapped bentwood around the two sides where they meet the center section, brass hardware and handle for carrying, fat strips of raffia straw braided and woven through a wicker structure, and a flat wooden bottom. The overall