Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase anywhere it is hung this

anywhere it is hung this piece will really make the room

12 1/2" l x 3/4" widest x 1/2" deep

these were most commonly made by women

and the there are a few cracks on the top of the top hat

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

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase anywhere it is hung thisThis 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