Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king The scalloped edge of the

The scalloped edge of the creamy white painted handle really does it for me

which a handwritten note on reverse describes as  depicting (I think it reads) "Bear Mountain and Pond" (there's a bridge mentioned too

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

One missing inlaid diamond on one side of the base

Liberty-esque Antique Grulich Pointing Angel king The scalloped edge of theI took her for Lady Liberty before I realized she was an angel, and I love the conflation. This is a Grulich nativity figure not too far a cry from German Erzgebirge carvings, but their own thing, created in what is now called Krliky in the Czech Republic, at the foot of the Eagle Mountains in Northern Bohemia. Apparently, Emperor Joseph II. forbade any Christmas nativities in churches, after which, beginning in the early 1800s, the Grulich area began