Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab There is a terrific directness

There is a terrific directness but also specificity of the print

There is residue from an old piece of tape on one side and some darkening to the copper

made to be beautiful

Bottom half is 5 1/2" tall

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab There is a terrific directnessI 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