Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle just perfection I think—and I

just perfection I think—and I like to imagine that its maker used it routinely to remove his boots after a long outing through woods and fields with this particular Pointer leading the way

and have not been able to trace what appears to be LB signed on the back of her base

but with a wire still wrapped around is waist and looped at back

) and bullseye at the center

Just great in every detail

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY medicine bottle just perfection I think—and II sold a pair of these several months ago but had set aside two more to enjoy myself for a while before offering them up. I know that these were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read them as patterns, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric mark pieces to be cut and seams to be