Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl which operates both horizontally and—turn

which operates both horizontally and—turn your head or the image 90 degrees—vertically as well

including both antique and contemporary decor

of course is easy to remove if one prefer to put something more personal in its place

structurally sound

and there is a bit of mildewing

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl which operates both horizontally and—turnI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second