Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher I purchased it from a

I purchased it from a British dealer and believe the seascape depicted is the English coast

4" diameter at top and bottom

Made of cut and knotted strips of fabric

these two canoeing women in their fabulously detailed dresses

And what a fantastic treatment of the stump he is perched on

Antique Birch Bark Snuff Box with Heart Cutout folk art pitcher I purchased it from aAn unusual one. There are wrapped birch bark boxes of this ilk that are described Scandinavian, and others described as Native American I am really not entirely sure about this one, but I do know that it is an old one, 19th century I do believe, with iron nails holding it together here and there. I've never seen another with a cutout like this in the bark let alone a heart! and, curiously, the appears to be an image of a few playing cards showing