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

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

which looks to me to read "The First Chosen" and the year 1948

Great as a pedestal

and definitely with age to it

SOLD Honesty Is the Best Policy, Uncle Harry's (or Hazzy's!?) Large Georgian Tole Painted Snuff/Tobacco Tin snow drift and must say it's 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