A Scandinavian burr birch or maple and brass mounted snuff flask, late 17th or early 18th century

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies, Hertford 1973. Page 160, plate 62, comparable examples fig's. L,R,S,T & U..

A comparable example sold Sothebys, W.J.Shepherd Collection of Treen, 30 November 1983, lot 480.

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