Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet antique make do Crack as evident but stable

Crack as evident but stable and not especially delicate

with just a bit of foxing in the sky of the painting

Just a very sweet thing

and the brass pin to hold it closed is still in place

with squarish sliding form rather than a ball inside the "cage

Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet antique make do Crack as evident but stableThis hand tooled leather wallet is not all that much to look at when folded up, but open it and it is a gift that just keeps giving, on and on and on and on! Some of the interior decoration, particularly the hand colored passages of geometric patterns, is reminiscent of Plains and Plateau Native American parfleche bags, but I believe this is African, specifically Tuareg culture I think (a large Berber ethnic group, principally inhabiting the Sahara in