Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush 5 3/4" in diameter

5 3/4" in diameter

this one large enough to hold all sorts of things should one want to put it to use

I'd really love to have a whole bunch of these

a studio potter born in Boston in 1936

designed by Grete Prytz Kittelsen for Cathrineholm

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush 5 3/4" in diameterI'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