Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull Perhaps the perfect gift for

Perhaps the perfect gift for a geologist or earth scientist of some sort--or one's favorite Anglophile

I came across these in a box of old salvaged quilt squares and thought they were just too pretty--and labored over

best known for her wood engravings like this one

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Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull Perhaps the perfect gift forI 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