Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug Photos tell the story best--a

Photos tell the story best--a very singular

but turned it upside down to find the name Garland incised on the bottom

one flipped up

they're quite confident and I think very poetic sketches

or a bird of paradise would be pretty fabulous in it too

Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug Photos tell the story best--aI'm glad for tobacco in the sense that it gave rise to so many lovely snuff boxes to love now. And with so many produced in such variety, quite a nice and endlessly rewarding! thing to collect. It's the cumulative effect of shape and scalloped lid and lacquered surface on this one that does it for me making the hinged, papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell, but in fact rather like the shell of a tortoise (as if his head and tail might