Salesman Sample Shoe and Boot Collection, with Boxes, as Found handpainted japanese tea tin really beautiful and super special

really beautiful and super special feeling

13 inches long overall x 3/8" wide and deep

done by a young Emil Gottlieb--with a card tucked in from a teacher (seems perhaps from Sunday school or similar) assigning him a verse to memorize about the importance of cleanliness in body and mind

perhaps with a plane ticket rolled up inside

but very little on the side with the boy and chick

Salesman Sample Shoe and Boot Collection, with Boxes, as Found handpainted japanese tea tin really beautiful and super specialFelt like Christmas finding the whole lot of these together the other day at an antiques shop on the New Hampshire coast. I think the two pairs of rubber boots and three pairs of galoshes are the oldest of the lot, with the tall rubber boots, and one pair of galoshes marked Candee, which places them late 19th early 20th century. Then an array of hard plastic mens dress shoes in a spectrum of colors and with a variety of labels, some pairs and some