Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl yellow and pinkish birds --

yellow and pinkish birds -- one on each side of the vase -- at first seem more like abstract passages than figurative forms

including both antique and contemporary decor

then hand-finished each kernel using dental tools

structurally sound

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens large wood bowl yellow and pinkish birds --I 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