Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe personality including its first Santa Claus

including its first Santa Claus

or rather  one dog drawn in two positions

and I wonder perhaps if M

but one might put a few battery powered candles inside to make it emit a bluish glow

I have to imagine these were done by a boy of 13 or so

Silver Painted, Pin Prick Decorated, Carved Folk Art Pin Cushion Shoe personality including its first Santa ClausSo many shoe shaped things in the world to love, and I'm a sucker for pin prick type decoration circling a toe! It's a curious one, feeling to me one part Victorian and one part Texas, between the silver and those stars adhered to the wide pink ribbon on either side. (And really, it seems quite an apt companion to the Marie Antoinette watercolor I'm listing next!) 5" l x 1 5 8" w x 3 1 2" t. Good condition, with a nice patina of use and wear, ribbons