Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery and how its body

and how its body

then peering through the kaleidoscopic towers of rings and squares I'd constructed

and the specifics so great

and the perfect phrase to cautiously broadcast her affection for the recipient--who appears first to have been a Dorothy Hittle

Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery and how its bodyAnother very unusual one, which I have tried hard to find out something about, with no luck at all, including attempts to trace the mark. A box for storing silver diaper pins? A container for a child's ashes? A mold? I really have no idea, but find it quite an evocative and slightly haunting object. Definitely pewter and I assume British, with a mark that looks to read ICH together with a lion. If you know more than I do about this, please share! 4 9