Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank made in America I just love the specificity

I just love the specificity of the imagery

Perhaps it is especially because I keenly identify with this clumsy child

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

Yellowknife

The kit consists of a bottle of gold paint (mostly empty and no longer usable)

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank made in America I just love the specificityI'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