Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet 2 7/16" tall x 1

2 7/16" tall x 1 3/8" wide x 9/16" deep

Loss to the photo as evident from the reverse but as mounted one would not know

Mid-century or so I would guess

largely unbroken (and I am not messing with it except to pack it carefully) in the original box with printed label on one side

4 1/4" long x 3 5/8" tall

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet 2 7/16" tall x 1I sold a pair of these several months ago but had set aside two more to enjoy myself for a while before offering them up. I know that these were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read them as patterns, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric mark pieces to be cut and seams to be