Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 cross hatching I see a lot of

I see a lot of expense ledgers around but this is really a good one

the other at his knee with index finger pointing south

in his finery

Earlyish 20th century I'd guess and it looks hand-painted to me

with a satisfying moodiness and sense of symbolism to it

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 cross hatching I see a lot ofI found this one in Maine, purchased from a dealer who had two other 18th century (those two Dutch) snuff boxes alongside them, I am sure from the same collection. (Those two were in rough shape or I would have bought them two.) I love a wooden snuff box with puzzle lid, but often one finds them with a loss at one side that keeps them from working properly not the case here; it works just as it should. And then the happy surprise of a year written