Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina coffee set strong ink and color

strong ink and color

which I have found a fair amount about and attributed to online

11” x 2 1/4” x 1 1/4 d and in very sound condition with a terrific patina

I am really not sure the age or origins of this piece

a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina coffee set strong ink and colorYou 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