SOLD Deco Detailed Antique Carved Miniature Shoes in Original Gold Paint large piggy bank coming to the room of

coming to the room of Ruth Sutton and Clara Fisk (both fantastically rendered

and it makes me really happy to think of a young Paul drawing this just for Mildred many many years ago

(At the end of photos is a photo of a 1986 page from Maine Antiques Digest documenting a similar crewelwork purse believed to have been owned by John Richardson of Townsend MA--sold along with a small watercolor of a house for $9900

Robitaille is first and foremost a bird carver--shorebirds

It contained a smoking room

SOLD Deco Detailed Antique Carved Miniature Shoes in Original Gold Paint large piggy bank coming to the room ofTotal delight finding these like the Chrysler Building of carved miniature shoes, and in original gold paint to boot! Just fantastic detail, making them feel very architectural indeed, and also very smart and full of attitude. I do believe 1920s or so, and perhaps meant to house small pin cushions, but they feel very much complete and resolved as they are. Super. Each 2" t x 3 7 8" l x 3 4" w. Looks like an old glued repair mid way down (or up!) the