Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl they remind me think a

they remind me think a bit of Constructivist sculpture and even more so of the costumes in Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet)

with just one very tiny nick in the  the wood on the highest-relief tip of the anchor on the right side

or love letters

in the original box

The subjects of his artworks included landscapes

Miniature Cast Iron Cobblers Form (?) on Wooden Post pottery owl they remind me think aLike many things I find great, I'm not quite totally sure the purpose of this one! The cast iron shoe form piece measures just shy of 3 inches long, so seems small even for a baby shoe, so perhaps it was used by a doll maker, though why the tread on the bottom I'm not sure either; perhaps it was all about making tracks? In any event. with this wonderfully aged old wood "leg", I think it's a pretty cool object, and a nice and heavy one, which perhaps