Antique "Compositio" Hand-painted Tin dark wood box The puzzle top opens and

The puzzle top opens and closes through three moves--first swinging out the short top piece of the lid

clean tear that runs vertically from the bottom center-left edge

I must say that since first seeing it

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Hayter’s Atelier 17

Antique "Compositio" Hand-painted Tin dark wood box The puzzle top opens andI find the hand painted black against cream "Compositio" lettering on the front of this antique tin just about as good as it gets; pure yum! I assume this was an apothecary tin, holding a mixture of some sort, but am not entirely certain. There is some text written on the inside of the lid, which looks to read 10 cents each followed with an 8. 5 which I might guess meant ounces or grams per unit. And a date: November 8, 189_, the exact year faded by