Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl (Winfield later moved to Santa

(Winfield later moved to Santa Monica

and it appears that there was once a sticker on the bottom

and one of them is carved wooden whimsies like this chain

but also because I didn’t know exactly what it was and wanted to find out

still lives and figures

Pressed Birch Bark Antique Snuff Box with Child and Chickens navajo owl (Winfield later moved to SantaI 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