Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! elegant wooden citrus reamer A great addition to a

A great addition to a collection of Southern pottery (or any pottery

all of which led into

It was arranged and pressed just right and has  endured remarkably well

The eleven different traps pictured are geared toward catching mice

This black cat appears to have been painted just in advance of Halloween 1905

Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! elegant wooden citrus reamer A great addition to aSuch a fun one. I'm always delighted by the humor of those Brits in the early 1800s this Georgian snuff box immediately made me think of a Sunderland transferware chamber pot I once had of the same period, with witty verse of the toilet humor variety and a frog inside, waiting with open mouth! This snuff box feels more carnivalesque, as if a window offering a view of a boy uncomfortably trapped inside the box! A rare one, and a great one, which also