Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy and lovely detailing to the

and lovely detailing to the underside of the base

which I vividly remember opening for the first time

) Dating to the 1930s I believe

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

I really love the colors on Persian Qajar era pottery--super lush

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy and lovely detailing to theYou 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