Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug and some on the body

and some on the body too

and a little bleeding to the red paint on one wing--all adding up to a great patina

they're quite confident and I think very poetic sketches

Peace and plenty

Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug and some on the bodyI'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