Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay active sammy and a little dirt around

and a little dirt around the edges where the metal meets enamel

but also in a crisp white one

and closed in 1962)

illustrator and cartoonist Rose O'Neill

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay active sammy and a little dirt aroundI find this miniature shoe quite extraordinary, unusual for being crafted of leather rather than wood, with no sign that it ever had a lid to function as a snuff box, and with a level of detail that suggest it may have been made as a salesman sample, with a numbered label on that bottom that might reinforce that notion (?) If not, a very very finely crafted whimsy! The leather is very hard, feeling almost like wood, but is decorated with fantastic