Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens wooden hunter figurine was beautifully made by hand

was beautifully made by hand and signed by Andersen Studio in Boothbay Maine

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Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens wooden hunter figurine was beautifully made by handI 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