Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy Or a cracked egg on

Or a cracked egg on a string

I really love the colors on Persian Qajar era pottery--super lush

which I vividly remember opening for the first time

with a minor bend to front and back cardboard covers

but the mounting makes it a bit hard to see underneath to read it--it looks perhaps like Thomas Wed (or Weo

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy Or a cracked egg onYou 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