Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush designed by Grete Prytz Kittelsen

designed by Grete Prytz Kittelsen for Cathrineholm

but I think it's pretty great

Very good vintage condition--I'd guess it dates from the 1930s or 40s--with a nice warm patina

and which he noted on the drawing

clown himself 10 1/2" tall x 2 1/2" widest

Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank horsehair clothes brush designed by Grete Prytz KittelsenI'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