Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration figurative box but this single example I

but this single example I think is so special I wanted to list it individually

but what a lovely thing

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to be turned over to confirm success (or peek to cheat) after dessert was finished

Beautiful Antique Child's Shoe Last with Pin Prick and Chip Carved Decoration figurative box but this single example I(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