Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine old tins for holding snuff

for holding snuff

and also lovely

with the black painted ground of the slide concealing (more of less) a second image that is revealed when the top pane of glass is pulled to the right

This gang I would think merges a few from a Noah's Arc set (the camel at least

Missing the brush and mixing pots

Lovely Old Pennsylvania Painted Slide Lid Crate Wood Box with Berries on Vine old tins for holding snuffI found this one at a wonderful antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA and am quite smitten with it, for the yellow of the paint and especially for the deep red fruit punctuating the rich green vine running across the lid. Just right, and I love how the "berries" at either end are cut in half, as if to mark the edges, while the full at center marks the spot. Very charming, and quite a useful box for holding all sorts of things. With a painted over