Wooden Shoe Form with Hooks and Laces San Pacifici vase all the better for the

all the better for the patterns of dots and waves that animate it and the little red bow holding his hat in place

and often like this one taking the form of a structure with a few balls inside

)  For one occasionally guilty of dramatizing the weight of one's own responsibilities

1920s-1940s or so

Wooden Shoe Form with Hooks and Laces San Pacifici vase all the better for theI have not found another wooden shoe form out there with hooks and laces quite like this one. I think perhaps it was used for display in a cobbler's shop; there are hooks on both ends of it, one (easily removed) that attaches to a large brass loop, making for easy hanging. I love it as an object and would indeed be inclined to hang it on the wall. Not including the hanging loop, the wooden form itself measures 9 3 4" long x 2 3 4" wide x 4" tall. It