Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout wooden clappers with an April snowstorm happening

with an April snowstorm happening here as I write this

and really loved its combination of looseness and specificity

2 1/4" l x 1 9/16" w x 13/16" d and in very good condition

which played an important part in popularizing the medium

Pear: 4 1/8" t x 2 1/2" w

Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout wooden clappers with an April snowstorm happeningAn unusual one. There are wrapped birch bark boxes of this ilk that are described Scandinavian, and others described as Native American I am really not entirely sure about this one, but I do know that it is an old one, 19th century I do believe, with iron nails holding it together here and there. I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark let alone a heart! and, curiously, the appears to be an image of a few playing cards showing