Description: Annie Oakley. Mini boxes for tiny treasures.
Measurement:  2in h
Interior: Shotgun
Manufacturer: Harmony Ball
Material: Crushed Marble, with look and feel of antique ivory

Annie Oakley, an Ohio native, was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860. Early on, she developed an amazing proficiency with firearms. As a child she hunted game with such success that, according to legend, she was able to pay off the mortgage on the family farm. When she was 15 she won a shooting match in Cincinnati with Frank E. Butler, a vaudeville marksman. They were soon married, and until 1885 they played vaudeville circuits and circuses as “Butler and Oakley” (she apparently took her professional name from a Cincinnati suburb). In 1885, Oakley, now under her husband's management, joined “Buffalo Bill” Cody's Wild West Show. Billed as “Miss Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing-Shot,” she was one of the show's star attractions for 16 years. Oakley never failed to delight her audiences, and her feats of marksmanship were truly incredible. At thirty paces she could split a playing card held edge-on, she hit dimes tossed into the air, she shot cigarettes from her husband's lips, and, a playing card being thrown into the air, she riddled it before it touched the ground. She was a great success on the Wild West Show's European trips. In 1887 she was presented to Queen Victoria, and later in Berlin she performed her cigarette trick with, at his insistence, Crown Prince Wilhelm (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) holding the cigarette. A train wreck in 1901 left her partially paralyzed for a time, but she recovered and returned to the stage to amaze audiences for many more years. She died in 1926.