Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell which ranges from a Red

which ranges from a Red Delicious sort of red to a little browner nearer the bottom

) Held together at the center with a wood handle

Framed as found in a old lemon gold painted wooden frame

but that was a bare-knuckled match

Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell which ranges from a RedThis! My very favorite Brimfield find I think a Georgian (earlyish 19th c. British) snuff box, engraved with the "Modern Prophecy" of a flying machine. I love archaic futuristic visions of all sorts, and what a marvelous example this one is, with what looks like a steam powered mail box flapping its wings as it takes off from an elevated platform. Certainly the 19th century was full of ideas for air travel, fueled in part from the late 18th c.