Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull not matched on the other

not matched on the other side

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

and I'd set an old pottery pitcher filled with a few flowering branches or hydrangea right below it

and often incorporate tools carved from antler

Really charming

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull not matched on the otherI 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