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Hoganas Keramik, Skane, Sweden, pottery slipper with Louis IV heel is a lead glazed yellow pottery. Exterior is olive bistre and interior is aqua . The shoe is heavily embossed with repetitive panels of sheaved leaves. The vamp top has a button-centered bow with ribbon ends trailng down the sides. Impressed on bottom is “Hoganas” and potter’s initials, KP. The Hoganas pottery begain its production of lead glazed yellow pottery in 1833 with production reaching its high point about 1890. Shortly after that the factory shifted to production of varied clay colors and by 1926 this part of the business was closed. The absence of a model number in the impress dates this shoe to before 1893. Size is 4.25 x 2.3; 3.2 oz. Condition report: Excellent with fine age checks throughout the glaze. Wojtkowski pg 62L1.2. Item #1072B, Price $50 plus $7.25 shipping ($57.25 total insured expedited shipping). BUY NOW WITH PAYPAL.
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Porcelain ankle high work boot with two-toned pale blue airbrushed detailing. Has 4 paired eyelets and an original old white shoelace with metal aglets. Rounded toe and raised toe cap seam; detailed lug type sole. Both double and single dot impress seams and unusual vertical side seam. Size 4.85 x 2.85, 3.6 oz. Unmarked as to manufacture, but similar décor and quality to Mardorf & Bandorf items from Arnstadt, Germany, Wojtkowski pg 165 & 166. Likewise appears to be early 1900s. Condition report: very good with miniscule glaze flake noted at back rim and overglazed depression at right rim tip; absolutely trivial. Item #942, Price $18 plus $7.25 shipping ($25.25 total insured expedited shipping). BUY NOW WITH PAYPAL.
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This is a porcelain clear glazed slipper with in-mold vamp ornament secured on each side by a button. It has colored floral transfers and a delicate handpainted feather-and-dot-stroke rim garland. The shoe was made just after the turn of the last century by the porcelain factory of Erdmann Schlegelmilch (E.S. Germany).
The shoe is unmarked but it is known marked with the Prov Sxe ES Germany mark #1798 (Röntgen). I’ve included an extra comparison photo as the in-mold button detail is very crisp on this shoe and less obvious on the link photos. The shoe is also shown in Porcelain and Pottery Shoes by Anne Everest Wojtkowski, Schiffer Pub 2004, page 130L2.2. Condition report: The gild on this shoe is still almost pristine with just the merest hints of rub. The mold detail is absolutely crisp. If you want a unique and hard to find shoe in your collection, this is your opportunity. Size is 4.9 x 2.25; 2.6 oz. Item #115, Book value $230, priced to sell at $165. Shipping is $8 ($173 total insured expedited shipping). BUY NOW WITH PAYPAL.
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Early 1900s known, based on a 1907 souvenir piece in my personal collection. Porcelain small dip glazed chalk white brown child’s tie shoe with three open paired eyelets and open lacing vee; no lace, although I will add a period lace with metal aglets free gratis on request. Germany; unmarked. The technique is dip glazed, and shoes done in that manner are covered beginning on pg 171 of Wojtkowski reference. The name of the East German factory is lost to current history, but the singular manufacturing style is given the attribution Dip Glazed Chalk Whites by author Wojtkowski. Size is 3.4 x 1.8; 2.1 oz. Condition report: Very good but with a few pieces of glaze skipped kiln debris adhered on right. Item #1197B, Price $10 plus $7.25 shipping ($17.25 total insured expedited shipping). BUY NOW WITH PAYPAL.
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This Uhl miniature pottery slipper with handpainted design is shown on pg 158 of the
Feldmeyer & Holtzman Uhl Pottery Guide. Fired glaze is prussian green; decorative pattern is over-the-glaze cold paint utilizing circles and lines in white, orange & moss green. This lunch hour creation, so called because employees enhanced some pieces on their own initiative, is not marked, but there is an unreadable red marking in the shank. Size is .3 x 1.25, .8 oz. The UHL factory closed in 1944. This item is believed to be c. 1920-44. Condition report: Very good; the cold paint is mostly intact and is actually better than the referenced example. Item #1030, Item #1030, has a $45 book value, priced to sell at $28 plus $7.25 shipping ($35.25 total insured expedited shipping). BUY NOW WITH PAYPAL.
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