As Found: Lovely Little Antique Band Box with Curious Treasures Inside for plants which nearly matches the dark

which nearly matches the dark brown-black of the rubber around the interior perimeter and at the far corners

I believe it is a roll of 5000 pins

dated 1869 at lower right

combining just about everything that I love most in one very singular small object

As Found: Lovely Little Antique Band Box with Curious Treasures Inside for plants which nearly matches the darkSo curious, and lovely! I was delighted to find this small band box covered in hand printed paper and with old handwritten ledger page adhered to the underside in New Hampshire this week, and then was even more delighted to find treasures inside when I opened it. What are, or were, these pretty little rounds of paper cut from early playing cards with wooden disks behind many of them, all punched through with tiny wooden posts? Spinners or markers from