Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box vintage Haitian art 5 1/4" tall

5 1/4" tall

Each is signed on the underside and there is a mark on the side of the one with the wider banding

so I never pass them by

(Six issues of the bi-monthly publication were produced in total before publication ceased in 1922

10 inches long

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box vintage Haitian art 5 1/4" tallThere are some very fancy little antique shoe shaped snuff boxes out there with all sorts of inlays and flourishes, but I love the relative humility of this one (and its great silhouette), with just some sweet decorative detail carved into the pointy toe and a short heel at the other end. There is some old hand written cursive text on the bottom of the box, I believe in pencil, but it is very faint and I am unable to read it; I do believe this little