Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush which I think make it

which I think make it feel rather heroic

lushness and boldness

in large part as a result of finding wonderful objects like this brass hand-shaped clip

with the cardboard lid just resting on top

10 inches long

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush which I think make itI 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