Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl still lives and figures

still lives and figures

4 5/8" across from inside of lip

and one of them is carved wooden whimsies like this chain

but this whale design I believe was by far the loveliest

and it appears that there was once a sticker on the bottom

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl still lives and figuresI 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