Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! elegant wooden citrus reamer I do wonder

I do wonder

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

a little further research has led me to understand the origins of the technique to be

I really know nothing about toy soldiers

I think the looseness and lack of color

Early 19th C. British Lacquered Papier Mache Snuff Box, View From Below! elegant wooden citrus reamer I do wonderSuch 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