Large Monogrammed Boot Shaped Crazy Quilt Pin Cushion old lock and key Initialed on reverse

Initialed on reverse

mid-1960s metal bookends

6 1/8" t x 5 1/4" w x 3 3/4" d and in very good condition

The face and details appear to be pyrography

from which spring what look rather like colorful flowers but perhaps they are creatures being boiled alive

Large Monogrammed Boot Shaped Crazy Quilt Pin Cushion old lock and key Initialed on reverseI've come across a few Victorian pin cushions made in this funny sort of boot shape, with long pointy toe and crook of a heel, which always feel a little witchy to me. This large one has a whole lot going one, which makes me love it, from the crazy quilt style velvet patchwork, to the variety of different hand embroidered stitches used to piece it together, to the pinkish monogrammed band across the top reading L. A. S I believe (though that could be