Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl The one with the lobster

The one with the lobster is signed (as well as wonderfully painted) on the underside with what looks like "Bd 13

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

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

including both antique and contemporary decor

extended arms of this man and woman as they reach out for one another

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl The one with the lobsterI 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