Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through etched printers plate much played with but all

much played with but all the better for it I think

Some were signed

and all are in very good condition

with services to held at the home of her father

Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through etched printers plate much played with but allFound in southern Maine this week, I think this is really beautiful, and quite poetic, too. It is a 19th century bootjack, which was used so much that the hanging hole at the narrow end wore all the way through, leaving that open curve. I love the primitive elegance of the resulting form, which also reads like a body, arms (or open mouth, or claw) extending from one end, legs from the other. And turn it over, there's a face! The wood itself shows a