Wonderful Little 1850 Slide Lid Snuff Box with Mother of Pearl Heart and Brass Nails Decoration pennywort as pictured in detail photo

as pictured in detail photo

Graphite drawn details on some of them

are all the more special for that provenance

with several large plants in New England that operated until the 1970s

My guess is that he was meant to represent Uncle Sam

Wonderful Little 1850 Slide Lid Snuff Box with Mother of Pearl Heart and Brass Nails Decoration pennywort as pictured in detail photoA complete charmer of a folk art snuff box, and happily a dated one too, with 1850 spelled (numbered?) out in tiny brass nails at the top of the tight fitting slide lid. With wonderful inlaid mother of pearl at center of the lid, framed by more nails that extend out to form crosses, and what I believe are two urns with flowers on reverse, facing in opposite directions. And with careful attention paid to the carving of the box, with nicely rounded