SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes dyed splint ash I don't do much fishing

I don't do much fishing

I have found these work better on some kinds of paper than others

I'd be inclined to follow him too

she worked at the Hudson River Museum

Dickie (a relative of the box owner I'd guess) who had headed a New York company during the Civil War

SOLD Painterly Pair of c. Early 19th Century Hinged, Lacquered Snuff Boxes dyed splint ash I don't do much fishingI found these two together in New Hampshire and think they are perfectly complimentary, so am offering them as a pair. Both lacquered papier mache, Georgian period British I believe, and I think meant to mimic tortoiseshell, but what I love about them is how much the black and red painted decoration resembles grain painting, super lush and painterly on the larger and looking as if applied with finger tips on the smaller. Like paint decorated American