Auction Day results

Came back from the auction with a modest haul today. I picked up a naughty Chris Cooper original painting that's going straight into a client's collection, a vintage Hartmann valise that needs a little mink oil on the leather bits, a Murano style glass-rod ship in a bottle that's cool but not valuable, a large Carnival glass cookie jar, a pair of mis-matched spurs, and a Peking Glass brush pot in Imperial Yellow (aka chicken-fat).

 
I love the brush pot and I think it's going to live in my personal collection for a while. Here's a close-up:

I also swapped a cool old mail-bag I had won with another dealer who gave me this little footed box.

 

I'm not sure what it was intended to be used for, but it is marked 1821 and has someone's initials on top as well. It's made of pewter, both sides open although the other side does not have a divider. I have a suspicion it might be a snuff box, but usually they have a single chamber and are better sealed to preserve the proper humidity of the snuff.