Nailed Heart, Hand-tooled Details, c. Early 19th Century Leather and Wood Snuff Shoe pin cushion and just great--this old cutting

and just great--this old cutting board is the size of a large slice of bread

but have it on fairly good authority that these likely date to the 1880s or so

This piece is in very good condition

describing them as "Poster Crayons for Free Expression" -- what could be better

with the glowing face of the young woman at left in sharpest focus but everything else pretty soft around the edges

Nailed Heart, Hand-tooled Details, c. Early 19th Century Leather and Wood Snuff Shoe pin cushion and just great--this old cuttingI love a carved shoe, and especially a carved shoe shaped snuff box, but I look at a whole lot of them and mostly let them go. I purchased this and a second today on Ebay from a seller who seemed to have come into a very good small collection of them, all fine early examples I think this one c. late 1700s based on form and materials and compparison to related examples out there. A fairly unusual one, hand tooled leather rather than wood, every inch