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This measures approximately 7″ tall.
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This is a Tobacco Humidor, or maybe not.
It’s either an inkwell or a tobacco box
It is an antique inkwell. The top of the dog’s head flips open to reveal the glass ink bottle. I have a more intricately carved, older version of this.
It is an antique inkwell. The top of the dog’s head flips open to reveal a glass inpot. I have a more intricately carved, older version of this.
I don’t know for sure but it could be a funeral urn.
Is it a tobacco container?
Humidor.
Snuff box
Looks like a tobacco humidor.
Cookie jar in the shape of a bull dog
It will hold your tobacco.
It is a tobacco holder.
Ash tray
It’s a Victorian inkwell.
i WOULD GUESS THIS IS A GREEK RENDITION OF A BULLDOG, POSSIBLY WOUNDED IN THE HEAD.
1920’s tobacco box.
It looks like an antique tobacco humidor to me….
Dog treat container
Red Ox Chewing tobacco box from the 1920s