Carved cobbler's wooden shoe last, long and narrow, with a hole for threading (and string) to hang it. It is a solid medium brown wood.
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
LAST, SHOE
Tacked to a wall near the last in the attic, was a small typed label, now in the file, it reads: COBBLER'S SHOE LAST .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
2.5 x 11 x 2.875 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1159
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