Antique Tole Painted Foo Dog Box for "Future Prosperity" brass claw feet extravagant week-long event founded in

extravagant week-long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re-defining the city as "the Athens of the West"

I just find the aged colors super satisfying

Fat old hand-forged nails all over including an exuberant big cluster of them on one short side

Underneath her fabric skirt

including for the way the two shiny silver metal plates frame either side of the recessed tree-like form's "trunk"

Antique Tole Painted Foo Dog Box for "Future Prosperity" brass claw feet extravagant week-long event founded inHow could I resist the hand painted golden foo dog on the lid of this old tin box, promising future prosperity? Perhaps used as a snuff box, perhaps for something else, now useful for all sorts of little things. Late 19th century or so I believe, and though the lettering of "prosperity" is pretty faint, the dog is very radiant gold! 3 1 4 x 2 1 2 x 11 16 and in good condition, tin opens easily and closes tight.