Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery it's a special small rug

it's a special small rug for a special spot

and how its body

and the specifics so great

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

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

Curious Old Pewter Cradle Shaped Box with Baby! Mexican folk art pottery it's a special small rugAnother 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