Curious Antique Snuff Box Shoe with Nails All Over unique kilim or a camp counselor

or a camp counselor

A beautiful old never used horsehair brush with its original paper wrapper

considering the precarious perch where I found it

The painting and roughness of the clay surface make it feel even older

" On the bottom of each of their pieces also appears the species of the particular mushroom represented--in this case the first of the two words is a bit difficult to read because of a tiny chip in the glaze at the end of the first word but it looks like "Naucana Christinae"--and I must say is quite a lovely species

Curious Antique Snuff Box Shoe with Nails All Over unique kilim or a camp counselorI'm not quite sure what to see about the decoration on this antique shoe shaped snuff box; it's a bit of a mystery to me. One often sees piqu work on pieces like this decorative work made by inlaying tiny points or pins of silver, gold or other metal but here the metal bits are irregular and not sanded down, making for a rough, snagg y surface, and there are also a fair number of unfilled holes. Maybe it was never finished, or maybe suspended in a