C. 1780 Battersea Bilston Enamelware Motto Patch Box with Interior Mirror white slip glazed 3" across at lip and

3" across at lip and base

the product I believe of losing the entirety of its previously enameled surface

as with larger bee boxes

and on the interior walls

C. 1780 Battersea Bilston Enamelware Motto Patch Box with Interior Mirror white slip glazed 3" across at lip andI've always wanted a Battersea enamel patch box so old, late 1700s, and like little jewels, and so contemporary feeling in many of the messages they bear but I've never quite settled on one until finding this one near Albany this week that seemed just right to and maybe for! me. (Pretty much everything I buy I'll be happy to keep for myself, so I am always my own first customer!) I shot it with 3 4x magnification so the crazing on the white enamel