Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration old wooden slingshot and love the interplay between

and love the interplay between the two

with long black booted legs (which open and close) nailed directly to her the bust

with some dings and a few cracks to the Papier Mache and a little soiling

All nailed together on sturdy bases and hand-painted

smaller 4 3/8" long

Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration old wooden slingshot and love the interplay between(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