Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box European wood carved figure and furniture

and furniture

made by King Press

I am not certain the age of this fan

including this Mother Bird with Young

especially over entrances

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box European wood carved figure and furnitureThere 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