Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl including both antique and contemporary

including both antique and contemporary decor

having seen pieces in a couple of exhibitions of Inuit prints (that blew me away) over the past few years

The exterior shows a wonderfully nuanced range of tones

and there is a bit of mildewing

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

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl including both antique and contemporaryI 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