Very Old Carved Boot with Iron Nails, Presumed Pipe Tamper folk art wooden doorstop still in excellent condition but

still in excellent condition but with a gorgeous patina

And then this wonderful long and flowy brown linen skirt

And really I might be tempted to extract the former from the notebook to frame it--to admire the mast head-like "Single Fellows" so beautifully lettered

with great graphics

And he saw how the reeds grew dark

Very Old Carved Boot with Iron Nails, Presumed Pipe Tamper folk art wooden doorstop still in excellent condition but(Hard to photograph because that black paint absorbs all the light so I set it atop a block, which maybe helps a bit.) I believe this is quite an early carved boot American I believe, and earlyish 19th c. I would guess and I believe it was meant to function as a pipe tamper. I really love the form, very folky and a little awkward, but also with this great high heel. And I especially love the old iron nails that run both down the front and around the