C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal I've found a few other

I've found a few other snuff boxes like this that portray humorous scenes

5" long x 1 3/4" tall x 1 3/4" wide

wonderfully illustrating how to "enlarge or diminish by means of a square

suggesting perhaps our seated man is a chaplain

as opposed to many "wood spirit" carvings--faces carved into branches with the bark on them--which are pretty kitschy

C. 1890 McLaughlin Brothers, NY Wooden “Old Fashioned” Jackstraws in Original Box mosaic animal I've found a few otherMostly Ive gravitated toward British bone spellicans, which in large part preceded American Jack Straws, but this is a very early set of the latter, c. 1890, in great shape, and I really love that all of the pieces are shaped like tools (specifically intended to represent farm tools from what Ive read.) Each piece has a point value stamped on one sideindicating how many points a player would receive for successful extracting it from the others without