$1,185
Relief-carved and Painted Tobacco Box, America, 1892, rectangular box with lift-top relief-carved with Gothic arches around central round blossom, the sides relief-carved with bellflower stems, pipes, and flowers on arrows, and one side with assorted polychrome painted vessels and mugs and a verse inscribed "I judge the best, whate'er befall,... /Is still to sit on one's behind/And having duly moistened all/Smoke with an unperturbed mind," the bottom inscribed "W.L.T. -1892-his box," the interior containing an envelope with typed message: "And he left me the beautifully carved tobacco-box which he made himself. I shall pass it down to Theodore and, I hope, to Theodore Chadwick, Jr.," ht. 3 7/8, wd. 4 5/8, lg. 6 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-08-14
