Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl or love letters

or love letters

with a plastic hanger adhered to the back

The subjects of his artworks included landscapes

Executed in a Japanese-influenced art nouveau style

I Sometimes I find these glazes a bit much

Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl or love lettersLike 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