Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

This mini painting is an alcohol ink on yupo, mounted on birch panel and then resined with #Art_resin. The sides of this panel have relief with texture paste and then metallic paints added over.  The true color are gold and then randomly added blue turquoise metallic paints.  this is what it looks like with the sun hitting it. It almost looks gold.  This is the relief on the side panel. 

here is a new paintings going into my Etsy store.

I see these stamp carousels now and it brings me back to the time when we worked with just paper. There were so many stamps at that time for every different function indicating what was being done on the case. Everything from received to over due, past due out of order, requires attention, rush, priority, and many more depending on the industry you worked in. Most people would have their own set on their desk or if you worked with large amounts of paper, you most likely shared a carousel of stamps. Remember this was all pre computer when there was no way of simplifying the state that this piece of paper was in unless you hand wrote on the paper itself. It also made it easy for when more than one person was going to look at it. They would open the file and automatically know the status of the file.  Here are a few that I have and the ones from Factory 20 is one that I am drooling over. I don't know why but I just love the industrial look. |Plus I use them in my art work. 

The first one is a Japan lacquered jewelry box depicting a scene from Mount Fuji. A ballerina pops up when the cover is opened. The ballerina has had some damage and was badly glued back together which makes her dance a little off to the side. The whole interior is done in a fushia material. The box is intact and all the pieces of abalone shell are intact. The bottom has the wind up for the music which I am not sure of the song but think it might be Fly me to the moon". The bottom is stamped "Angel 205" with other numbers underneath which are not legible. I found a cute meaning to the |"Angel 205" on the internet and hand wrote it to go with the box. There seems to be a bit of wear on the outside of the box but in pretty nice shape for it being possibly from the 1950's. Measurements are 9" x 5 1/4" x 4".  This next jewelry box is twice the size but doesn't have the ballerina. I purchased it in the 1980's at a garage sale and it was in