Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina mid-century Brazilian landscape fall leaves or pinecones

fall leaves or pinecones

Framed: 20 3/8" w x 14 5/8" t x 7/8"d

1870 on the reverse

In addition to some black paint loss

I am not sure I have the heart to break it up

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina mid-century Brazilian landscape fall leaves or pineconesYou 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