SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin vintage lead figurine purchased from the great Chuck

purchased from the great Chuck Auerbach at the Deerfield show in New Hampshire--I imagine done as a school project

with even craquelure all over to the lacquered finish

and I've taken to thinking of him as a poet as much as a saint

) I really love the delicate little bird and radiant gold wheat against bright white here to begin with

SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin vintage lead figurine purchased from the great ChuckI'm finding myself ever more attracted to old things bearing phrases that feel timely in the present moment; finding this large hand painted Georgian snuff tobacco box, for example, felt like the distant past was sending urgent message of warning straight to us now! And yes, of course honesty is the best policy how did we forget???? I know this is English, c. 1790s an early one, painted tin, and an especially large one, for tobacco or a table scale