Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king one side etched with a

one side etched with a grid

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

and some of the powder substance still inside--an iron carbonate used extensively in the early to mid 19th century for treating everything from anemia to hemorrhages to yellow fever (typically dissolved in acid and mixed with alcohol form what I can tell

This is a very good condition antique wicker covered heavy clear glass Demijohn with handle

with the Trojan horse entering the gates of Troy the subject of the “R” and perhaps some sort of alchemy underway in “V”

Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king one side etched with aI took her for Lady Liberty before I realized she was an angel, and I love the conflation. This is a Grulich nativity figure not too far a cry from German Erzgebirge carvings, but their own thing, created in what is now called Krliky in the Czech Republic, at the foot of the Eagle Mountains in Northern Bohemia. Apparently, Emperor Joseph II. forbade any Christmas nativities in churches, after which, beginning in the early 1800s, the Grulich area began