Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase But one could use it

But one could use it in another way entirely--as a jewelry box

and remains in excellent condition

Fairly good overall condition

anywhere it is hung this piece will really make the room

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase But one could use itThis is a really lovely old hand stitched leather (cowhide I believe) covered Waverly cigarette tin, with hand woven details on the lid and sides. It is very faintly stamped Sierra Leone on the bottom and I believe dates to the 1920s or so. (I can just picture Ernest Hemingway bringing this back from one of his African hunting trips.) These seem to have been a handicraft specific to West Africa; I have found a few other examples, but few as great