Art Nouveau Brass Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Inserts for bedside table This is an especially nice

This is an especially nice example

mottled oatmeal colored glaze and hand-painted dark brown details

exceptionally  crafted examples of American Machine Age design

and is ready to be used for a puppet show

their faces veiled (I assume these women are nuns)

Art Nouveau Brass Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Inserts for bedside table This is an especially niceHow much nicer to reference this sweet old perpetual calendar with lovingly hand written inserts than to check the calendar on one's phone? The brass quintessentially art nouveau frame reads Tempus Fugit (time flies) at the bottom center and sits nicely on a desk, and the hand written two sided cards accounting for every month and possibility for how the dates fall are easily removed, swapped out, and reinserted, allowing one to stay on top of things