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

who believes it is machinist's ruler—they would often make their own measuring tools (like ladies legs calipers

but very sturdy on his base and completely stable

smaller 4 3/8" long

dating to the 1960s

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