Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle but with a wire still

but with a wire still wrapped around is waist and looped at back

The natural bristles on the brush side are very stiff

Just great in every detail

There is a recess on the reverse side of the hand--perhaps to which somehow a chain once attached

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle but with a wire stillI sold a pair of these several months ago but had set aside two more to enjoy myself for a while before offering them up. I know that these were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read them as patterns, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric mark pieces to be cut and seams to be