Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin antique corkscrew with turned wood handle The wood is well worn

The wood is well worn with some cracking

with just a tiny loss of paint in a couple of spots

also known as Dead Man's Buff

I never tire of gorgeous cinnabar colored Burmese lacquer betel boxes like this one

with wonderful little pointy ears and a really charming face detailed with black paint on the eyes

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin antique corkscrew with turned wood handle The wood is well wornThis 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