Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy which I vividly remember opening

which I vividly remember opening for the first time

because of its flat bottom and boxy form

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

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

and looks to be quite an old one

Early Elongated Carved Snuff Box Shoe with Great Patina carved boy which I vividly remember openingYou 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