Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box I have not been able

I have not been able to identify the C

The iron is rusty and will flake a bit when handled

I didn't know it when I found this drawing

and producing bright

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box I have not been ableI wish I knew how these two came to be. And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context, seeming all the more existential, and making me think of Estragon and Vladimir from Waiting for Godot. I believe they were the heads of marionettes, their bodies now long done but the pair definitely seeming as if they've still got dramas they want to enact! With carved and painted heads on dowels that extend to the bottom of their chests,