Large Antique Carved Wooden Boot With Many Nail Buttons for the dining table Though one might not have

Though one might not have a lot of practical use for a 1906 calendar

I have to think these were part of a card game

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but it seems time to offer them up individually--including for the fact that

Large Antique Carved Wooden Boot With Many Nail Buttons for the dining table Though one might not haveI'm never quire sure with a carved boot of this near full sized scale whether it was a folk creation or a cobbler's display piece, but whatever the case, all those tiny nails running up the length of the front, as if just waiting to be laced, really do it for me. There's a corresponding trail of nail punched holes (recesses) running along side them, and more of the same decorating the toe and sides. Nicely carved heel too. 8" l x 5 1 4" t x 2 3 8" w.