SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate darker in the corners and

darker in the corners and around edges from where it must have been mounted in an album or framed

with plenty of irregularities to the stone and the carving but no issues

and the petrified wood base (the absolute perfect base) definitely points to shorebird

and then the little "call me up" snuck in at left

It is the circular writing at bottom right here that made this  impossible for me to walk away from--I can't remember if and when I've seen another example along these lines

SOLD Brass Ladies Leg Presumed Trench Art Shoe Horn with Garter and Engraved Details terracotta plate darker in the corners andI believe this wonderful ladies leg shoe horn is a piece of trench art looks to me perhaps made from the brass of a shell casing and I would think WW1 era. With engraving detailing her shoe, a flower on her calf, and then intensive pinprick type decoration all around what I take for a garter midway up (with those spikes providing a good means of hanging this one the wall from a couple of small pins or nails.) I've certainly seen a lot of ladies legs