Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication carved helix drawing just slightly smaller than

drawing just slightly smaller than that

though have not been able to trace it

only to be made better filled with a few violets

Beautifully earthy

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

Victorian Treen Shoe with Nail and Pin Prick Dedication carved helix drawing just slightly smaller thanAnother 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