SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin snow drift At the bottom is a

At the bottom is a wooden stopper

and definitely with age to it

clear and crisp with very minimal toning

and must say it's a pretty satisfying rattle to wave around

and The Politics

SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin snow drift At the bottom is aI'm finding myself ever more attracted to old things bearing phrases that feel timely in the present moment; finding this large hand painted Georgian snuff tobacco box, for example, felt like the distant past was sending urgent message of warning straight to us now! And yes, of course honesty is the best policy how did we forget???? I know this is English, c. 1790s an early one, painted tin, and an especially large one, for tobacco or a table scale