Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) metal grasshopper pin constructed of netting and flowers

constructed of netting and flowers

and strong gouache painted color delivered with precision is pretty hard to beat

some paint/text loss primarily on two of them

as does the beautifully inked lettering at the bottom: The Favorite Rabbit

Drawing: 12 3/4" x 12 3/4"

Cool Vintage Brass Tobacco/Tinder Box with Magnifying Lens (for Fire Starting) metal grasshopper pin constructed of netting and flowersI had not seen another example of one of these when I found this it is a brass tobacco (or tinder) box, with magnifying glass at center of the lid (with brass cap to cover it), with the magnifier meant to be used for starting a fire lighting one's pipe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, during the fur trade era, boxes like this were produced by The Hudson Bay Trading Company in Canada, among others; this is a c. 1960s version, produced by (and marked)