Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell This drawing is completely up

This drawing is completely up my alley--cheerful but also a bit moody

and I believe either Dutch or German

It's a bit curious

Framed as found in a old lemon gold painted wooden frame

what a wonderful representation of U

Modern Prophecy, Early 19th C. Engraved Brass Snuff Box with Imagined Flying Machine heaven and hell This drawing is completely upThis! 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.