"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom there has been some deterioration

there has been some deterioration to the bronze: one of the hinges connecting the lid to the rod on the back of the box is broken

and all about the great silhouette of this camel

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In addition to the Flash Hand Cleaner can I just listed

but a lot of expression packed into this wonderful little carved figure

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom there has been some deteriorationI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two