Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael betting token This is the largest of

This is the largest of these traditional Scandanavian wrapped birch bark boxes I've ever seen at 5 1/2" inches long

and a small fold at bottom right corner

12 1/4" t x 8 1/2" w x 1 1/16" d and in very good condition

but with lots of room inside it would be handy for keeping all sorts of things

A proper hook is missing

Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael betting token This is the largest ofI've always got an eye out for religious icon paintings on tin, but rarely come across one I love as much as this large one, which is Russian (though much faded, there is painted Russian text in white above each figure) and depicts St. Nicholas at left and St. Michael at right. Saint Nicholas of Bari patron saint of children, sailors, and travelers (and the prototype of Father Christmas) is especially popular in Eastern Orthodox icons, most often