Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland I'm fussy about Color Cubes--some

I'm fussy about Color Cubes--some are more beautiful than others--and this is a very very beautiful

with what looks to me a carved wooden peg holding the very carefully carved hand

Striking to see a young man with a lost eye uncovered by a patch

and most of all full of the never-ending (and very early Victorian) drive to make momentos of every sort lest one be forgotten

but also really the perfect scale for holding garden gloves and clippers etc

Compass Rose Encircled in Red Rings, Sublime Hand-painted Early 19th Century Snuff Box antique sunderland I'm fussy about Color Cubes--someAnother object that for me is pure perfection. The color, the paint, the patina, and what better than a compass rose at the center of a snuff box to carry around in one's pocket as one navigates through the world? Sublime, right down to the small white dots midway between each point of the star, and with those red rings evincing a target, as if this were the north star, to keep forever in one's sights. 2 15 16" d x 11 16" t. Just gorgeous paint,