Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy Plus the remnants of what

Plus the remnants of what I believe is nickel plating on the neck

Or a cracked egg on a string

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

At some point it was mounted on a this knob-like base

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 Plus the remnants of whatYou 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