Wonderful Early-Mid 1800s Presumed American Shoe Shaped Box in Red Paint tabletopbarbed wire with other things stacked below

with other things stacked below or on top of it

My detail photos

The wood is a dark wood which has been painted/stained black

I never can resist German Erzgebirge houses when they are nice old ones like this with great color and lots of little windows

Wonderful Early-Mid 1800s Presumed American Shoe Shaped Box in Red Paint tabletopbarbed wire with other things stacked belowI love a carved shoe, and especially a carved shoe shaped snuff box, but I look at a whole lot of them and mostly let them go. This one though, no way. I purchased it on Ebay from a seller who seemed to have come into a very good small collection of them, all fine antique examples and this is the one I was determined to get. Based on the wood and the manner of the carving and that wonderful red paint, I believe this is American, early mid 19th