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SOLD Finely Carved Double Faced Black Forest Hinged Box sweet lock The page clearly came fromThough not always my cup of tea, the skillfulness of Black Forest carving is hard to deny which this snuff box scale carved and hinged box exemplifies and this one is very much indeed my cup of tea! I'm thinking it is a wolf though not far off in visage to wild boars and also bears in the Black Forest manner and inexplicably more finally carved on one side than the other (which I suppose could mean it represents two different creatures, but I'm not