Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull but I personally like the

but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is

Things like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable

mid-20th century I believe

Gichner offered his company’s services to the war effort

but this is a rarer

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull but I personally like theI found this one in Maine, purchased from a dealer who had two other 18th century (those two Dutch) snuff boxes alongside them, I am sure from the same collection. (Those two were in rough shape or I would have bought them two.) I love a wooden snuff box with puzzle lid, but often one finds them with a loss at one side that keeps them from working properly not the case here; it works just as it should. And then the happy surprise of a year written