Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through etched printers plate 4 1/2" x 2 3/4"

4 1/2" x 2 3/4" and in very good condition

which operated there for more than 25 years

with services to held at the home of her father

There's rarely a closed box of this sort I don't shake to see if there might be something (like kindergarten blocks

but the fourth has a perfect unused set inside

Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through etched printers plate 4 1/2" x 2 3/4"Found in southern Maine this week, I think this is really beautiful, and quite poetic, too. It is a 19th century bootjack, which was used so much that the hanging hole at the narrow end wore all the way through, leaving that open curve. I love the primitive elegance of the resulting form, which also reads like a body, arms (or open mouth, or claw) extending from one end, legs from the other. And turn it over, there's a face! The wood itself shows a