Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull best known for her wood

best known for her wood engravings like this one

but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is

and often incorporate tools carved from antler

but this is a rarer

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 carved hindu bull best known for her woodI 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