19th Century Tole Snuff Box/Vesta Shoe, Hand Engraved with Best Red Soles! handmade quilt The drawers all fit beautifully

The drawers all fit beautifully and open and close smoothly

but then this little bird

I think this old model train water-tower makes a pretty great tabletop sculpture

treated a bit like a scientific specimen

19th Century Tole Snuff Box/Vesta Shoe, Hand Engraved with Best Red Soles! handmade quilt The drawers all fit beautifully(First photo is a composite, showing two views.) The best tole (painted tin) snuff box (or perhaps vesta) shoe I have ever seen, truly. I was sold on it from the top view, between the cream paint and wonderful hand engraved decoration, but then I saw the bright red painted underside and that was it. The Louboutin of shoe shaped boxes (but much more practical!) Also makes me think of Dorothy in her ruby red slippers. Fabulous, and a perfect valentine,