Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails and with a nice warm

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

Terrific for flowers

dates I believe to the late 1800s

one of which

they can be worn as simple silver diamond shapes

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails and with a nice warmThere 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