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

Of the drear Hart Lake

which played an important part in popularizing the medium

they're pretty great looking objects for the shelf or coffee table or desk

and I swear I could pass a whole day just watching the sand pass from one end of the glass bulb to the other

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