Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing with one of the original

with one of the original pins in tact for holding the long sides together

Pretty rare to find a female version of one of these old Odd Fellows marks

they are of the same width

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

with some crackling to the paint and a ding to the board along the left edge

Woman with Bird, Antique Hand-painted Snuff Box Lid c. 1830 (Lid Only) marketing with one of the originalThis 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