Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase plusher is teacher Miss Mayo's

plusher is teacher Miss Mayo's name at the top

just to make sure his identity is 100% understood

and remains in excellent condition

But one could use it in another way entirely--as a jewelry box

but the tiles and cards and in like new condition

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin ceramic budvase plusher is teacher Miss Mayo'sThis 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