What is it?

I am calling it a lavalliere. It is a sphere, diameter of 5/8" [16mm], composed of six pyramids, hinged in the standard unfolded cube pattern, so that when it folded point to point the four clasps can be snapped tightly so that to look at it it just a small orb I suppose it could be worn as a pendant or a watch fob, perhaps even as a charm on a bracelet. Unless you saw it up close and examined it carefully, you would not imagine it to be a small group of hidden symbols or messages.

These symbols where scattered in quite a number of places in the journals, drawings of the panels, independantly and as groupings. I hadn't really started connecting them until there was one particular set of drawings...

It was nested in an old dictionary, the onion skin pages had been bored out just enought to close upon the lavalliere in its chamois drawstring sack.