Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 Christmas village lid slides in and out

lid slides in and out smoothly and closes tight

The head of the paper doll at left in first photo had torn so I re-secured it with clear archival tape from the reverse

I presume the couple here are homesteaders

nice wear and age

Great Hand-carved Wooden Puzzle Lid Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1776 Christmas village lid slides in and outI 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