Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase and remains in excellent condition

and remains in excellent condition

and the there are a few cracks on the top of the top hat

I can never pass by old turned wood salt spoons

just to make sure his identity is 100% understood

anywhere it is hung this piece will really make the room

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase and remains in excellent conditionThis is a really lovely old hand stitched leather (cowhide I believe) covered Waverly cigarette tin, with hand woven details on the lid and sides. It is very faintly stamped Sierra Leone on the bottom and I believe dates to the 1920s or so. (I can just picture Ernest Hemingway bringing this back from one of his African hunting trips.) These seem to have been a handicraft specific to West Africa; I have found a few other examples, but few as great