Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box Sturges Allen What's What At Home and Abroad in Jutland

in Jutland

I especially love its defined heel and sole

really only noticeable with magnification

This plate with the skiing couple celebrates Lappland in the north

The orange geometric design and black scalloped lines are slightly more thickly painted

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box Sturges Allen What's What At Home and Abroad in JutlandThere 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