Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 Christmas village edition of 40)

edition of 40)

here's a pair of funny faced c

with black paint for the eyes and brows

nice wear and age

made for stamping crates  (I presume) with "Native Extra Fancy Mushrooms

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 Christmas village edition of 40)I 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