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worn in the other direction
Late 19th/early 20th c
Interior is in original unpainted state
but what a sweet pair
has given way to modern spokeshaves with threaded tangs allowing for the adjusting of the blade
Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine ancient roman unguentarium worn in the other directionThis! My very favorite Brimfield find I think a Georgian (earlyish 19th c. British) snuff box, engraved with the "Modern Prophecy" of a flying machine. I love archaic futuristic visions of all sorts, and what a marvelous example this one is, with what looks like a steam powered mail box flapping its wings as it takes off from an elevated platform. Certainly the 19th century was full of ideas for air travel, fueled in part from the late 18th c.
