Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank made in America mouse and dog

mouse and dog

Yellowknife

but most of these temple toys date from the late 1800s through the early 1900s and I would guess the same on this one

From what I've found

Perhaps it is especially because I keenly identify with this clumsy child

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank made in America mouse and dogI've searched but haven't found another little shoe like this one perhaps because, if it is indeed an antique coin bank as I think it is, most of them were smashed long ago to retrieve the coins inside! It seems possible that untying the lace would allow it to come apart some to empty it, but the ribbon is so old and brittle I am afraid to try it! Clearly it was made in two halves, so it would seem they might split apart, but the two sides now seem