Tower Doors to Roof, Mysterious Old Handmade Copper Key Fob with Blackened Yale Keys folk art cross this tabletop scale painted wicker

this tabletop scale painted wicker hamper

making it feel a bit like a bleeding heart) giving a certain boldness and resolve to the whole thing

I will try tying it back together and likely list it as one thing

I love the dramatic moodiness of this old (1953) caricature drawing of a young man--or perhaps young woman

" with huge chunks of ice filling the top chamber

Tower Doors to Roof, Mysterious Old Handmade Copper Key Fob with Blackened Yale Keys folk art cross this tabletop scale painted wickerSeems perhaps the tower with doors #12&13 to roof which these keys opened went up in flames; the face of this fob was clearly cleaned since, but the the back of it and the keys themselves are completely blackened. Which lends added drama to visions of tower doors! I haven't been able to nail down the G. W Co. in question, but the manner of the type, and of the fob itself, and the Yale & Towne keys on it, say c. early 20th century to me. Found in