Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank turquoise glaze 6 1/8" long x 3"

6 1/8" long x 3" across at widest part of handle / 4 1/2" across at bristles

7" x 7" x 3"

) and certainly suggesting someone cared for these very much

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its body is painted a deep teal green animated with thousands of tiny dots in yellow

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank turquoise glaze 6 1/8" long x 3"I've searched but haven't found another little shoe like this one perhaps because, if it is indeed an antique coin bank as I think it is, most of them were smashed long ago to retrieve the coins inside! It seems possible that untying the lace would allow it to come apart some to empty it, but the ribbon is so old and brittle I am afraid to try it! Clearly it was made in two halves, so it would seem they might split apart, but the two sides now seem