Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication French words The wheels do turn by

The wheels do turn by hand but it doesn't really roll

including his father John 'Nasoalook' Tetpon

I think it certainly could still be employed as a nutcracker

and the fading out of the armature from which the deer hang enhancing the cross-like tethering of limbs

Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication French words The wheels do turn byAnother lovely treen shoe, this one made not as a snuff box but perhaps as a pin cushion, though if so all traces of that are long gone or maybe just as a love token of sorts, as there is a dedication on the sole, spelled out in pin pricked holes. I love the blue paint against the varnished wood, and of course all of those little nails giving pattern to the toe and sides, and especially the larger nails marching up the front, the tails of which one