Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab or a tuna fish sandwich

or a tuna fish sandwich with chips

based in Stonington

but the book itself is in excellent condition

Bottom half is 5 1/2" tall

which has led me to believe that it is Native Alaskan

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens real scarab or a tuna fish sandwichI had not seen a box like this one before I found it, but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany, and also it seems in the U. S., as I found one in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts portraying the death of a general at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775! The hinged box, which I believe dates to the second