Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin wooden stacking blocks I can just picture its

I can just picture its maker planning out the design and then emphatically carving away

His head measures about 3" wide

The brush measures 11 7/8" long with a diameter of 2 1/2"

reminding one of a terrific expressionistic woodcut

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin wooden stacking blocks I can just picture itsThis 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