Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin pig shaped It's a vintage 1:10 scale

It's a vintage 1:10 scale model of the 15th c Gutenberg printing press

and I think primitive wooden mallets like this one rate high among them

at the center of which is the grommeted hole from which string would be pulled (this would have been kept on a desk

immediately recognizable

On the underside is glued a heavy lead weight

Handmade Woven Leather Covered Cigarette Tin pig shaped It's a vintage 1:10 scaleThis 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