Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication carved helix with wood panel on the

with wood panel on the back of the frame

) and chisel carefully collaged of canceled postage stamps

2 1/16" x 1 7/8" x 1/2"

but he does have a nail piercing through one leg and little red spot for the exit wound

for the New England Steamship Company as the Islander

Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication carved helix with wood panel on theAnother lovely treen shoe, this one made not as a snuff box but perhaps as a pin cushion, though if so all traces of that are long gone or maybe just as a love token of sorts, as there is a dedication on the sole, spelled out in pin pricked holes. I love the blue paint against the varnished wood, and of course all of those little nails giving pattern to the toe and sides, and especially the larger nails marching up the front, the tails of which one