Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull but this is a rarer

but this is a rarer

I came across these in a box of old salvaged quilt squares and thought they were just too pretty--and labored over

and I'd set an old pottery pitcher filled with a few flowering branches or hydrangea right below it

Gichner offered his company’s services to the war effort

Really charming

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull but this is a rarerI found this one in Maine, purchased from a dealer who had two other 18th century (those two Dutch) snuff boxes alongside them, I am sure from the same collection. (Those two were in rough shape or I would have bought them two.) I love a wooden snuff box with puzzle lid, but often one finds them with a loss at one side that keeps them from working properly not the case here; it works just as it should. And then the happy surprise of a year written