Antique Two Piece Treen Snuff Box + Match Safe in the Form of a Boot ring holder 4 3/8" across at lip

4 3/8" across at lip and 3" d at base

offered to guests in a gesture of hospitality for them to select their preferred ingredients

many of these date from the 1940s

What a gorgeous thing

Antique Two Piece Treen Snuff Box + Match Safe in the Form of a Boot ring holder 4 3/8" across at lipI am a sucker for an interesting snuff box, and also for a carved boot or shoe (including boot shaped vesta), but I've never seen all of these rolled into one, as is this case with this wonderful, very old and very well done piece. The upper of the boot is itself a vessel, meant to hold matches, and lifts off of the the shoe shaped piece below, revealing it as a vessel as well, for holding snuff. Both stand on their own, then fit back together to