Brown Glazed Antique Stoneware Miniature Boot and Shoe Zanesville planter and “Precious and Other Stones

and “Precious and Other Stones Used in Jewelry”

making me pretty certain this is was a souvenir knife from Tromso in Northern Norway--quite a fishing destination

Such a charming carving

but it still attached) and what appears to be some breakage of the underlying ash structure at the very top of the vase on one area of one side

Brown Glazed Antique Stoneware Miniature Boot and Shoe Zanesville planter and “Precious and Other StonesI bought this boot and shoe together and think they make a really wonderful pair, so am selling them together. I've searched a bunch and found similar ones described as late 19th century Rockingham glazed and as Bennington flint glazed, both referring to the brown glaze which originated at Rockingham Pottery in England and then was most famously employed at Bennington Pottery in Vermont. Whatever the case, the date seems about right, and they are