Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting Patented 1889 on a piece of thin

on a piece of thin copper--heavy enough to endure but thin enough to bend

No holes or loose threads

with the drape of the cloth visible across the top of the painting against dark blue background--and I especially like that the thorns of the crown extend beyond the edges of the cloth (which

Wonderfully iconic

Ink stronger and richer in hand

Infinity Box! ASW's 1892 Set of Five Handmade, Jointed Boxes, Very Precisely Nesting Patented 1889 on a piece of thinA great delight finding this one. There's rarely a closed box of this sort I don't shake to see if there might be something (like kindergarten blocks!) inside, which was wise in this case or I might never have known there were four more boxes, of perfectly graduated scales, housed within it. (With subtly graduated patinas to the wood, too, the smallest looking as though it had never seen the light of day since its construction in 1892! Signed ASW,