SOLD Antique Hinged Wooden Box Filled with Small Wooden Parquetry Tiles scalloped All of the shoe-shaped snuff

All of the shoe-shaped snuff boxes I've found have been pocket sized

with two of the largest one featuring an arched door on one side

and this one could surely stand up to some play

Just a couple of matchstick bits missing from the chimney

protective creature watching over one

SOLD Antique Hinged Wooden Box Filled with Small Wooden Parquetry Tiles scalloped All of the shoe-shaped snuffA terrific old handmade box with brass hinges to begin with, and then all the better filled with a nice large lot of small, dyed wooden parquetry tiles with which one might spend hours and hours constructing geometric patterns and sprawling designs on the table. I love the soft colors of the tiles, which have quite a but of age to them, and the mix of diamonds and triangles allowing for all sorts of possibilities. I especially love the graphite