Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay active sammy for which perhaps additional decoration

for which perhaps additional decoration was planned

as I have found a few other pieces--cabinets mostly--with very very similar marquetry patterning

and closed in 1962)

I hope--or perhaps for a former Manhattanite like me

It took me a bit to realize it

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay active sammy for which perhaps additional decorationI find this miniature shoe quite extraordinary, unusual for being crafted of leather rather than wood, with no sign that it ever had a lid to function as a snuff box, and with a level of detail that suggest it may have been made as a salesman sample, with a numbered label on that bottom that might reinforce that notion (?) If not, a very very finely crafted whimsy! The leather is very hard, feeling almost like wood, but is decorated with fantastic