Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager Or perhaps the five spikes

Or perhaps the five spikes for its body served some other practical function

though it was found in Massachusetts

And with careful attention paid to the carving of the box

how even did they get the signature in there

but she does pay homage to primitively carved animals of earlier times

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) royal copenhager Or perhaps the five spikesI had not seen another example of one of these when I found this it is a brass tobacco (or tinder) box, with magnifying glass at center of the lid (with brass cap to cover it), with the magnifier meant to be used for starting a fire lighting one's pipe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during the fur trade era, boxes like this were produced by The Hudson Bay Trading Company in Canada, among others; this is a c. 1960s version, produced by (and marked)