Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush quite a heartening and satisfying

quite a heartening and  satisfying thing

which I think make it feel rather heroic

with the two balls connected to a central post

stepped in a bit from flat top of the stem

I think it's still a pretty sweet thing to do

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay horsehair barber's brush quite a heartening and satisfyingI 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