SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate with the people especially soulful--this

with the people especially soulful--this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point

darker in the corners and around edges from where it must have been mounted in an album or framed

There is a fine crease that runs horizontally across the center

It is the circular writing at bottom right here that made this  impossible for me to walk away from--I can't remember if and when I've seen another example along these lines

with plenty of irregularities to the stone and the carving but no issues

SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate with the people especially soulful--thisI believe this wonderful ladies leg shoe horn is a piece of trench art looks to me perhaps made from the brass of a shell casing and I would think WW1 era. With engraving detailing her shoe, a flower on her calf, and then intensive pinprick type decoration all around what I take for a garter midway up (with those spikes providing a good means of hanging this one the wall from a couple of small pins or nails.) I've certainly seen a lot of ladies legs