Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 bookend was designed and signed by

was designed and signed by Rune Tennesmed of Sweden

I'd say this little piece really captures a sense of "bear-ness"

I don't believe it is very old (I found another with the same fox and a pewter lid being sold online by a German importer)

gathered in the back

Model 148/2740 (design 148 on shape 2740)

Carved Stone Ladies Boot, 1917 bookend was designed and signed byThis charming little silhouette carving of a Victorian style ladies' boot stands up proudly on its own, and features deeply incised then blackened detailing for the laces and across the toe, and then 1917, presumably the year of its making, on both sides. I am not entirely sure of the stone; it may be marble but I'm not quite certain. The white irregularities seem for the most part to be indigenous to the stone rather than dings to the surface, though