Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell and I believe either Dutch

and I believe either Dutch or German

with lovely outwardly curling lip and terrific banded pattern of frogs around its lower half

It's a bit curious

but that was a bare-knuckled match

which ranges from a Red Delicious sort of red to a little browner nearer the bottom

Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell and I believe either DutchThis! 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.