Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers swiss cheese 13 1/2”l x 7 3/4”

13 1/2”l  x 7 3/4” t x 9 9/16” d and in good condition

all the better as amplified by the nuts and bolts and screws

stick retrieved

Such a great box

It is a pretty fun and clever thing--when you close the scissor

Pretty Little Scandanavian Wrapped Birch Bark Box with Painted Flowers swiss cheese 13 1/2”l x 7 3/4”A pretty little Scandinavian birch bark box with leather pull nice age to it and a few painted flowers on the lid, too. These were traditionally made by members of the Smi or Saami culture, indigenous Finno Ugric people inhabiting northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula, historically known in English as Lapps or Laplanders who used birch bark for everything from boxes to buoys. This one would have been made for the tourist trade, 1st