Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens wooden hunter figurine and which contribute

and which contribute

was beautifully made by hand and signed by Andersen Studio in Boothbay Maine

either from one nail

so that the form is angular and the surfaces smooth

Please see detailed photos for specific examples of wear to the basket--there are a couple of tiny broken stitches along the top edge of the lid and there is a bit of wear to the cedar bark

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens wooden hunter figurine and which contributeI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second