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

I do wonder

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

I really know nothing about toy soldiers

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

but it is pretty large and heavy

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