with a little paint loss here and there
I've found a few twins of these old cast iron boots
Photos provide a representative but not complete sample of pages
terminating in a snake like bun
with wired back for hanging
Sweet Lot of Old Schoolgirl Sewing Samples carved profile portrait with a little paint lossA very sweet pile of old schoolgirl sewing exercises, which it seems clear were once held in a sewing notebook (there are old oval shaped white stickers at the edges of many of them, which I've not removed but easily come off, which would have been used to mount them onto pages, likely accompanied by notes as to the skills being demonstrated. Examples of darning, weaving, and various sorts of mending, stitching, joining, hemming, etc. plus a draw