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signed with what appears to be “Turner” on the bottom

which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings

but I rather like how its simple whiteness now makes him look rather like a butcher

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin wooden stacking blocks o real matterThis 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