Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay chicago Signed on the bottom but

Signed on the bottom but I can't make it out

I really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog

which I would assume are small chips incurred through use

will sit balanced on his own

Amazing, Unusual Antique Miniature Leather Shoe with Bone Inlay chicago Signed on the bottom butI find this miniature shoe quite extraordinary, unusual for being crafted of leather rather than wood, with no sign that it ever had a lid to function as a snuff box, and with a level of detail that suggest it may have been made as a salesman sample, with a numbered label on that bottom that might reinforce that notion (?) If not, a very very finely crafted whimsy! The leather is very hard, feeling almost like wood, but is decorated with fantastic