Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush with the cardboard lid just

with the cardboard lid just resting on top

5 1/2" t x 3 1/4" w x 3 1/2" d and in excellent vintage condition

10 inches long

which I think make it feel rather heroic

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush with the cardboard lid justI 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