Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug but turned it upside down

but turned it upside down to find the name Garland incised on the bottom

I think the box is original to them

and a little bleeding to the red paint on one wing--all adding up to a great patina

Photos tell the story best--a very singular

I can't find a signature or mark

Earlyish 19th Century Lacquered Snuff Box in Tortoiseshell Paint antique chocolate mug but turned it upside downI'm glad for tobacco in the sense that it gave rise to so many lovely snuff boxes to love now. And with so many produced in such variety, quite a nice and endlessly rewarding! thing to collect. It's the cumulative effect of shape and scalloped lid and lacquered surface on this one that does it for me making the hinged, papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell, but in fact rather like the shell of a tortoise (as if his head and tail might