Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay chicago 7 1/2" long x 3/4"

7 1/2" long x 3/4" wide x 9/16" deep

in Illinois

I really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog

which I would assume are small chips incurred through use

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay chicago 7 1/2" long x 3/4"I 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