Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens wooden hunter figurine either from one nail

either from one nail

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

It was made by Wrico

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 either from one nailI 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