Peace and Plenty: Large Tole Painted Late 18th Century Tobacco/Snuff Box patterned This is one of new

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

including perhaps near or in front of a window

with the color showing on the top side and the natural gray unpainted paper on the underside

he's pretty much just red now

Peace and Plenty: Large Tole Painted Late 18th Century Tobacco/Snuff Box patterned This is one of newPeace and plenty, how to argue with that? And it looks to me like a pair of bee skeps here, side by side, used to illustrate the phrase a pair of happy colonies, coexisting in peace. I know this is English, c. 1790s an early one, painted tin, and a large one,for tobacco or snuff. I love how wonderfully folky the lettering is and those freehand curlicues, perhaps suggesting bees buzzing around! 5 7 8" w x 3 3 8" d x 1 3 16" t and in good condition.