Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin pig shaped those eyes are always watching

those eyes are always watching

On the underside is glued a heavy lead weight

5 3/4" across with handles

and many years in it yet

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin pig shaped those eyes are always watchingThis 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