Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush a studio potter born in

a studio potter born in Boston in 1936

clown himself 10 1/2" tall x 2 1/2" widest

5 3/4" in diameter

and which he noted on the drawing

I wish I knew this history of this wonderful

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush a studio potter born inI'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