Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 modular earrings My guess is that it

My guess is that it is Japanese

I walked in to a recent estate sale and this little house was the very first thing I saw

as surely one never has a shortage of odds and ends that need a home

but revealing the hand of its maker through small imperfections here and there

Nice and heavy and super useful

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 modular earrings My guess is that itThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though