JH's 1866 Hand-Engraved, Double Hinged Brass Swedish Snuff Box with Swimming Serpent guard dog 2 7/16" tall x 1

2 7/16" tall x 1 3/8" wide x 9/16" deep

Bleed through on a few

No significant bends

but to my mind one should pluck every one of these one finds and build an orchard of a collection of them

pretty wonderful I think

JH's 1866 Hand-Engraved, Double Hinged Brass Swedish Snuff Box with Swimming Serpent guard dog 2 7/16" tall x 1Just my sort of snuff box, with the freehand engraving about as folky as it gets, and I sure do love the manner of that lettering. But most of all I love the manner of that sea serpent, emerging from the wavering line of the sea, and another wavering line below giving rise to a leafy sprig. The mark on the flip side identifies the brass box as Swedish, produced by Westers Metallfabrik, a metalworking company that was based in Vsters, (on the shore of