Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank turquoise glaze From what I've learned

From what I've learned

MA along with several other beautiful Burmese boxes

(There is a second shino-glazed bowl I purchased along with this one

I've become a huge fan of these old wooden Czech "ramp walkers

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Antique Carved Wood Shoe Shaped Still Bank turquoise glaze From what I've learnedI'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