2 dogs on box cover? Pewter?

[faribo]

I went out this afternoon and did a little bit of swinging. The spot I wanted still had frost in the ground about 2 inches down as it faces north. So I went across the road to a place I wanted to check out. This is the closest thing to anything good from there.
It is quite heavy and I suspect it may be pewter. The metal is decomposing. It is 4 1/2 inches long and 3 1/4 wide. Don't know what it is.

 

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[Jose The Goon]

I thought it might be the lid from an old ornate food tin. so I googled "pewter terriers on can lid"
and I came up with this:

pewter terriers on can lid - Google Search

If you search around a bit, you might find a match somewhere. Pretty neat find. The dogs alone are cool. Congrats on an interesting find. Being heavy, it could be the lid of an ornate vintage jewelry box or something like that.
Here's an antique jewelry box with dogs link. Might be better.

pewter terriers on antique jewelry box lid - Google Search

 

[Digger RJ]

I went out this afternoon and did a little bit of swinging. The spot I wanted still had frost in the ground about 2 inches down as it faces north. So I went across the road to a place I wanted to check out. This is the closest thing to anything good from there.
It is quite heavy and I suspect it may be pewter. The metal is decomposing. It is 4 1/2 inches long and 3 1/4 wide. Don't know what it is.


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Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Richard Guy]

It could be a Dog grave marker

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Those are probably Scottish terriers depicted on it, So I would start my search with that type of dog, It could narrow down the search parameters.

 

[faribo]

It could be a Dog grave marker

I thought about it maybe being the lid to a pet urn. The thing is, that it doesn't make sense considering where it was that I found it.

 

[jewelerguy]

very similar metal trinket box listed on ebay...... https://www.ebay.com/itm/363074659853

 

[faribo]

very similar metal trinket box listed on ebay...... https://www.ebay.com/itm/363074659853

I would agree that this is VERY similar. Similar enough for me to feel that this is what it is. Mine is bigger (story of my life) but otherwise the same enough for an ID. Thank you.