Wonderful Vintage Rock Collection with Corals, Large Tooth, Handwritten Notes and More in Old Cookie Tin gas and the Senora de Soledad

and the Senora de Soledad (another name for Mary) at top right

and "MONEYCOMB" in capital italics

as a provocation to  consider of the potential power embedded in the act of concealment

I believe this sweet little pressed metal octagonal-shaped box is probably tin

The legend of the Pied Piper originated  in the Middle Ages

Wonderful Vintage Rock Collection with Corals, Large Tooth, Handwritten Notes and More in Old Cookie Tin gas and the Senora de SoledadFinding this made me purely happy wouldn't it be a nicer world if people spent their spare time making rock collections again? Housed in an old cookie biscuit tin with flowers on the lid, this one includes a note card detailing at least some of the contents and where they were found, from a railroad bed in Georgia, to Jones Beach to Kington, NY to the (NY State) Thurway and a piece of Crystal Quartz from "Louise and Moshe". Photos document all of it,