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

anywhere it is hung this piece will really make the room

Fairly good overall condition

plusher is teacher Miss Mayo's name at the top

these were most commonly made by women

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

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