Amazing Old Handmade Mismatched (His and Hers?) Lawn Aerator Shoes tan whose carver seems to have

whose carver seems to have abandoned him without quite finishing (though after doing quite a nice job detailing his face

While the patent information of this has become difficult to read

and no great finesse was applied to some of the stitching

The body is densely decorated all over with pressed patterns

Amazing Old Handmade Mismatched (His and Hers?) Lawn Aerator Shoes tan whose carver seems to haveThe person I purchased these from in Maine thought they were for walking on ice, but Eric Oglander at tihngs posted a pair some time ago which I had held in my memory and looked up, which tells me that they are (old, very primitively made) lawn aerating shoes, really a pretty brilliant solution for loosening and aerating soil and one which seems in fact to have come back into vogue. The fact that is is a mismatched pair makes me wonder if there were