Sweet and Unusual Old Carved Boot Pipe Bowl! picket fence shelf I find it pretty transporting

I find it pretty transporting

and one bent-over nail on the top deck rail

the stripping of context statuette-ing also lends a certain sense of vulnerability and exposed-ness--one wants her to land in the right place

pretty impossible not to want to take care of

Sweet and Unusual Old Carved Boot Pipe Bowl! picket fence shelf I find it pretty transportingA very sweet old carved wooden boot, because I think one can never have too many carved boots and shoes but then this one is a pipe bowl, to boot! About as basic as it gets in terms of pipe bowls just a hole in the heel that goes through to the interior but with lovingly incised detailing at the toe, around the sides, and up the front as lacing holes. 3" l x 1 3 8" w x 1 13 16" t. Late 19th very early 20th c, nice dry patina, good condition.