SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate and the petrified wood base

and the petrified wood base (the absolute perfect base) definitely points to shorebird

as his legs move backward but not forward at his knees

which turned the graphite drawing of the features of a face it into a face on the moon

stands squarely in front of another tall tree--a true terminus indeed

and then the little "call me up" snuck in at left

SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate and the petrified wood baseI believe this wonderful ladies leg shoe horn is a piece of trench art looks to me perhaps made from the brass of a shell casing and I would think WW1 era. With engraving detailing her shoe, a flower on her calf, and then intensive pinprick type decoration all around what I take for a garter midway up (with those spikes providing a good means of hanging this one the wall from a couple of small pins or nails.) I've certainly seen a lot of ladies legs