Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy clearly carved of the same

clearly carved of the same wood as the rest of of him

At some point it was mounted on a this knob-like base

and looks to be quite an old one

because of its flat bottom and boxy form

with a minor bend to front and back cardboard covers

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy clearly carved of the sameYou know I love an old carved shoe, and even more so when it is a snuff box, and even more so when its got such terrifically elongated proportions as this one, and a fantastic surface too. I believe this is quite an early one, earlyish 19th c. I would guess, and I love how small the hollow for snuff is compared with the scale of the shoe itself. It appears to me the surface was given stained (including black drawn laces) and then given a coat or more