Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 puppet making book another shaped like a bare

another shaped like a bare foot

This very old Black Americana tin toy is pretty distressed

While the tile shows its age in the form of scratches to the surface revealing the red clay below the glaze

the contrast between finished dark wood and and black painted wood

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 puppet making book another shaped like a bareThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though