Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber Really fun

Really fun

Pretty decorative patterns along every edge

1880s tin (1882 patent) certainly shows plenty of wear and aging (almost as if having been through a fire itself

and arms clasped behind his back

Some aging/rusting to the surface of the tin

Pair of 19th C. Hand-colored Reward of Merits with Birds Apex rubber Really funI would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them! I like these two as a pair for the array of birds represented an owl and what looks to me like some bird of a prey on the top one, and an eagle on the other. Both hand colored, both dating to the mid 19th c I believe, and both presented