Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl they remind me think a

they remind me think a bit of Constructivist sculpture and even more so of the costumes in Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet)

Executed in a Japanese-influenced art nouveau style

which have been bent or hammered into the desired pattern

3 3/4" t x 3 5/8" w x 2 1/2" d

in the original box

Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl they remind me think aLike many things I find great, I'm not quite totally sure the purpose of this one! The cast iron shoe form piece measures just shy of 3 inches long, so seems small even for a baby shoe, so perhaps it was used by a doll maker, though why the tread on the bottom I'm not sure either; perhaps it was all about making tracks? In any event. with this wonderfully aged old wood "leg", I think it's a pretty cool object, and a nice and heavy one, which perhaps