Wooden Shoe Form with Hooks and Laces San Pacifici vase 1920s-1940s or so

1920s-1940s or so

could be put to use as a sifter or strainer

all the better for the patterns of dots and waves that animate it and the little red bow holding his hat in place

)  For one occasionally guilty of dramatizing the weight of one's own responsibilities

and often like this one taking the form of a structure with a few balls inside

Wooden Shoe Form with Hooks and Laces San Pacifici vase 1920s-1940s or soI have not found another wooden shoe form out there with hooks and laces quite like this one. I think perhaps it was used for display in a cobbler's shop; there are hooks on both ends of it, one (easily removed) that attaches to a large brass loop, making for easy hanging. I love it as an object and would indeed be inclined to hang it on the wall. Not including the hanging loop, the wooden form itself measures 9 3 4" long x 2 3 4" wide x 4" tall. It