Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) wounded animal but I'm very glad it

but I'm very glad it exists

But how much nicer for it to be a full length portrait

all to the good I think as it makes a nice and easy pocket or sleeve for  a book or notebook or love notes now

and brought him back this bottle (filled with what I am not sure) as a gift from her travels

and a little loss along the side of the base too

Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) wounded animal but I'm very glad itAt first I thought this was a pipe tamper, but there is a threaded opening at the thigh end, so I am pretty certain it was made as a finial or perhaps even a cabinet pull. (With a little searching, I find 19th c. cane handles in a very similar form and manner.) Wonderfully detailed boot, with eye holes and laces up the front, and dots around the perimeter of the sole, too, and then this excellent tightly belted garter. No mark that I can see, mixed