#430

Early Cloth Figure of Shoemaker in Scene
Live Auction

$750
sold
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Description
12" (30 cm.) h. cabinet. A glass-sided cabinet displays a cloth figure of aged man with glass eyes and open mouth with painted teeth and deeply-impressed pain wrinkles,seated with shoe-repair supplies arrayed at his side. He appears to have stabbed his finger with his awl,and is wincing in pain. Condition: very good,19th century,fine detail of costuming and wonderful shoe-making ephemera.