Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina mid-century Brazilian landscape In addition to some black

In addition to some black paint loss

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

) All of the specimens are visible with the naked eye

Framed: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2"

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 In addition to some blackYou 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