Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug which happily lends is another

which happily lends is another dimension

and a little bleeding to the red paint on one wing--all adding up to a great patina

Photos tell the story best--a very singular

"River People") and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) are renowned for coiled baskets like this one

Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug which happily lends is anotherI'm glad for tobacco in the sense that it gave rise to so many lovely snuff boxes to love now. And with so many produced in such variety, quite a nice and endlessly rewarding! thing to collect. It's the cumulative effect of shape and scalloped lid and lacquered surface on this one that does it for me making the hinged, papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell, but in fact rather like the shell of a tortoise (as if his head and tail might