19th Century Tole Snuff Box/Vesta Shoe, Hand Engraved with Best Red Soles! handmade quilt or hang it up around

or hang it up around the holidays to signal that you're ready to receive some

and a little surface roughness on the inside of the curves of the necks

at left a Scarlet Tanager

treated a bit like a scientific specimen

19th Century Tole Snuff Box/Vesta Shoe, Hand Engraved with Best Red Soles! handmade quilt or hang it up around(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,