SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details jet plane and black mohair hair

and black mohair hair

MA"--a family run manufacturing company founded in the 1920s and which continues to operate today-- on the backside

when I did I realized it was quite a large one

The notes on the back seem to correspond to the following image in the volume

SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details jet plane and black mohair hairI believe this wonderful ladies leg shoe horn is a piece of trench art looks to me perhaps made from the brass of a shell casing and I would think WW1 era. With engraving detailing her shoe, a flower on her calf, and then intensive pinprick type decoration all around what I take for a garter midway up (with those spikes providing a good means of hanging this one the wall from a couple of small pins or nails.) I've certainly seen a lot of ladies legs