Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery so my attraction to this

so my attraction to this is as an object--though of course it could be reanimated with new mechanics and set to work keeping time again

and the way in which they might be integrated into one's life

A lovely example of West German Pottery by Scheurich Keramik

furniture and fixtures carefully cut from catalogs or advertisements and pasted in

numbers mixed in representing specific dates

Guinea, Crow, Tame Pigeon, Turtle Dove - 1883 Iowa Egg Collection with Hand-inked Names metallic embroidery so my attraction to thisThere is no universe in which I would not bring these home with me, though I would love it if there were twice or ten times as many eggs inside this old tin. I found these in New Hampshire, but the Prairie Chicken egg, in addition to identifying it as such, notes the location: Grove Hill, Shelby County, Iowa, and the year of its collection, 1883. Nine eggs here, seven of them with hand inked names, in order: Guinea, Pigeon, Crow (my favorite), Prairie