SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes dyed splint ash I have found these work

I have found these work better on some kinds of paper than others

A nice balance of humble and elegant I think

Norman and titled EN BESTANDIG ALMANACH / RUNSTAVEN FÖRSVENSKAD (Permanent Almanac / Runic calendar

I don't do much fishing

Dickie (a relative of the box owner I'd guess) who had headed a New York company during the Civil War

SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes dyed splint ash I have found these workI found these two together in New Hampshire and think they are perfectly complimentary, so am offering them as a pair. Both lacquered papier mache, Georgian period British I believe, and I think meant to mimic tortoiseshell, but what I love about them is how much the black and red painted decoration resembles grain painting, super lush and painterly on the larger and looking as if applied with finger tips on the smaller. Like paint decorated American