Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails they can be worn as

they can be worn as simple silver diamond shapes

and forward stretched arm

Clearly it was made for a purpose

Terrific for flowers

dates I believe to the late 1800s

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails they can be worn asThere 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