Transportes del Norte Bus Line Vintage Playing Card Dominoes 1800s brush There is a wire on

There is a wire on the back side for hanging

as is his shadow-self on the reverse

Please see detailed photos for specific examples of wear to the basket--there are a couple of tiny broken stitches along the top edge of the lid and there is a bit of wear to the cedar bark

but have learned that it is an antique snuff box representative of a whole genre of figurative birch snuff boxes made in the 18th and 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany

and I think it would have been used as a pill box

Transportes del Norte Bus Line Vintage Playing Card Dominoes 1800s brush There is a wire onI can't get enough of these old domino playing cards, which I'm discovering were produced in some variety including many as free give aways, such as these from Transportes del Norte, a bus line running from Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to Loredo, Texas. These have a nice weight and gloss coating, and are a bit unusual in featuring both dots and numbers both. Plus that great black and blue bus graphic on the backs! Complete set of double sixes, in