Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration lidded tin box I do think this painted

I do think this painted papier-mache face is quite spectacular

I find this antique handmade card--maybe a valentine

is that he became quite well known as an artist in the Modena

Blocks are 1" cubed

and with a chip to his hat one one side

Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration lidded tin box I do think this painted(Photos do this no real justice.) No real reason one would have decorated a shoe last in this manner I don't believe other than just to make it feel special, which this one very much feels, and I've not seen another like it. It does seem like someone had fun decorating it, with swirls of holes made by a small nail leading the eye all around the foot, and branching in a few spots to terminate in chip carved points. (It seems possible the nails were