Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails but with its solid black

but with its solid black ground also looks really sharp against crisp white bedding

and with a nice warm patina (I have not touched it)

which I think gives this little rabbit a very energetic feeling and immediacy

one of which

8ʺW × 8ʺD × 6ʺH and in excellent condition

Carved Wooden Shoe Shaped Snuff Box nails but with its solid blackThere 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