Rare Early (c. 1800) French Papier Mache Snuff Box, The Burdens of the Husband! handkerchief box The original elastic is still

The original elastic is still attached so one can do just that

should one be so lucky as to have lots of things in the $900 range:)) And hard to beat the great surface and super inky black against creamy white

and it seems to red pajama one may have once been been blue

I have left the protective plastic cover on and photographed it as such

I love them all

Rare Early (c. 1800) French Papier Mache Snuff Box, The Burdens of the Husband! handkerchief box The original elastic is stillThis is an earlyvery late 18th or very early 19th centuryFrench lacquered papier mch snuff box, and quite an amazing and amusing one, too, which I can find no match of out there anywhere. The text at bottom reads La Charge dun Mari ou le Fardeau du Menage, translating to the burden of the husband or the burden of the householdmeaning, essentially, what a lot of demands this fellow carries on his back, his wife, with two fingers raised behind his head,