Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration figurative box Some loss and aging to

Some loss and aging to the black paint

The sails are gone

but this single example I think is so special I wanted to list it individually

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Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration figurative box Some loss and aging to(Photos do this no real justice.) No real reason one would have decorated a shoe last in this manner I don't believe other than just to make it feel special, which this one very much feels, and I've not seen another like it. It does seem like someone had fun decorating it, with swirls of holes made by a small nail leading the eye all around the foot, and branching in a few spots to terminate in chip carved points. (It seems possible the nails were