SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin vintage lead figurine a note that it was

a note that it was made by Fred Lant c

stands up solidly on his own two feet

and I've taken to thinking of him as a poet as much as a saint

and I found then with a green velvet ribbon

then realized they'd made a mistake and wrote in Mary

SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin vintage lead figurine a note that it wasI'm finding myself ever more attracted to old things bearing phrases that feel timely in the present moment; finding this large hand painted Georgian snuff tobacco box, for example, felt like the distant past was sending urgent message of warning straight to us now! And yes, of course honesty is the best policy how did we forget???? I know this is English, c. 1790s an early one, painted tin, and an especially large one, for tobacco or a table scale