Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet antique make do all pictured included

all pictured included

Just a very sweet thing

with just a bit of foxing in the sky of the painting

and the brass pin to hold it closed is still in place

with some wear to the wood and probably some fading of the original color

Endlessly Unfurling, Heavily Decorated, Vintage Hand-tooled Tuareg African Leather Wallet antique make do all pictured includedThis hand tooled leather wallet is not all that much to look at when folded up, but open it and it is a gift that just keeps giving, on and on and on and on! Some of the interior decoration, particularly the hand colored passages of geometric patterns, is reminiscent of Plains and Plateau Native American parfleche bags, but I believe this is African, specifically Tuareg culture I think (a large Berber ethnic group, principally inhabiting the Sahara in