Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton and a pair of stick

and a pair of stick pins used to bind it

Very nice antique condition

taller at one end that the other

often incorporated multiple "frames" and story-board like scenarios

Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton and a pair of stickCurious. I don't know that I'd ever seen a pair of metal salesman sample shoes before, but I'm more or less certain that is what these are, given their quality and scale and specificity. (Or maybe a shoe company's gift for the loafer salesman of the year?!) They're quite substantial, beautifully crafted and quite striking, all the more so in hand, with their surface finish evincing carved stone (I keep thinking of catlinite) as much as anything and