Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton often incorporated multiple "frames" and

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

8 3/4” t x approx 5 3/4” on the square

I believe the piece dates to the 1960s-70s

I found these two together in Kansas City

) featured in American Vernacular

Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton often incorporated multiple "frames" andCurious. 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