Carved Alabaster Trinket Box with Hand, Presumed Victorian wabi-sabi and definitely more or less

and definitely more or less industructible

) I love the range of silks incorporated into this one (47 different brands by my count) delivering a spectrum of color

I have removed a little wax and there is some blackening to the interior/around the rim of the candleholder just visible on the back side (see photos

I am not a huge Mickey Mouse person

And curious

Carved Alabaster Trinket Box with Hand, Presumed Victorian wabi-sabi and definitely more or lessI've certainly come to love carefully mended things as much if not more than ones perfectly in tact, which is definitely the case with the broken and re glued piece of thumb on the carved hand on the top of this trinket box, alabaster I believe, which looks rather as if wrapped in a clear band aid! Mends such as this clearly attest to the care of its owner, and in this case I rather like it as a complement to the twisted bracelet around the wrist. I