Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication French words with the cutout letters and

with the cutout letters and eggs about 3/8" thick on top of that

So curious

I think it certainly could still be employed as a nutcracker

I have found no other copy of the green-backed deck

Considered together with the deer watercolor surely by the same artist

Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication French words with the cutout letters andAnother lovely treen shoe, this one made not as a snuff box but perhaps as a pin cushion, though if so all traces of that are long gone or maybe just as a love token of sorts, as there is a dedication on the sole, spelled out in pin pricked holes. I love the blue paint against the varnished wood, and of course all of those little nails giving pattern to the toe and sides, and especially the larger nails marching up the front, the tails of which one