Brass Victorian Style United Shoe Manufacturing Co. Boot Paperweight letterpress features 22 stories edited &

features 22 stories edited & translated by Maurice Metayer interspersed with 31 fantastic full page

It is the perfect shade of green--somewhere between olive and kelly--with a fabulous pop of orange around the lid

“Suffrage Blue Bird Day

The stain on this one has a bit of a reddish tone

I love this wonderfully creepy-cheerful

Brass Victorian Style United Shoe Manufacturing Co. Boot Paperweight letterpress features 22 stories edited &I purchased this old brass boot at an estate sale at the family home of the former Plant Engineer at The United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly, MA, established in 1899 and one of the nation's most important producers of industrial machinery, especially for the shoe industry. Marked USM on the side, I assume it was a company giveaway at some point a great little object, and a nice piece of history! This little boot definitely has many years on it