Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery as well as a hairline

as well as a hairline crack on the interior near one of the hinges and overall wear/aging to the interior bottom half

but overall its is in very good antique condition with all of the seams holding tight

Everything is covered with a layer of varnish or shellac

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

and the specifics so great

Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery as well as a hairlineAnother 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