Curious Antique Snuff Box Shoe with Nails All Over unique kilim Clearly someone else was pretty

Clearly someone else was pretty pleased with it too

or perhaps even birds of paradise

at odds with the monogram

or a camp counselor

Curious Antique Snuff Box Shoe with Nails All Over unique kilim Clearly someone else was prettyI'm not quite sure what to see about the decoration on this antique shoe shaped snuff box; it's a bit of a mystery to me. One often sees piqu work on pieces like this decorative work made by inlaying tiny points or pins of silver, gold or other metal but here the metal bits are irregular and not sanded down, making for a rough, snagg y surface, and there are also a fair number of unfilled holes. Maybe it was never finished, or maybe suspended in a