Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm but fairly minor and overall

but fairly minor and overall just a nice warm patina that I have not touched

He's threaded with what I believe is his original string

I have not amped up the color on this guy

which I know from tracing the Thompson

and indeed have learned they are pretty rare--and this set all the rarer for being double nines rather than double sixes--and all 55 of them are here

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) picture of farm but fairly minor and overallThis early hand painted snuff box lid has no bottom, but it's all about the lid anyway. (I'd probably treat it just like a miniature portrait and hang it directly from a nail on the wall.) I've gotten pretty into portraits of woman lately, and have especially been keeping an eye out for portraits of young women with birds, which it seems were used to signal a range of things, from virtue to nobility to (sexual) freedom to fertility. I''m guessing it's