19th Century Glass Gold Boot #040

Miniature ’stirrup’ cup with rare attached handle. Very thin glass and very delicate, with no chips or cracks.

Hand-blown glass boot is approximately the size of this photograph and measures 1 5/8″ long, 1″ wide, and 1 7/16″ high, not including the handle. Circa 1880s.

The second photo is a better indication of the color of the boot.

This was purchased in the early 1990s at an antique store in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and was a part of a 30 piece shoe collection begun by a woman in her eighties 50 years earlier. Five of these shoes were aquisitioned for the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection, the oldest and most valuable being this little treasure. Purchase for $18.00 in 1992, not its estimated collector’s value is $50.00 to $60.00.

December 25, 2007 - Posted by Bo | Lillian P. Wood Memorial Collection, Miniature Shoes, Miniature Shoes Collection, Vintage Miniature Shoes, antique shoes, collections, shoe collections | antique shoe, antiques, hand blown glass, Lillian P. Wood, Miniature Shoes, shoe collection, stirrup cup shoes, tirrup cup | 1 Comment

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Hi, I have a box of glass and china boots and shoes that was given to me by my mother-in-law. I would like to sell them and do not know how to value them. My mother-in-law is no longer with us, so I can not ask what she paid for them or how old they are. I do know they are from the 1900’s. Not real old but non-the-less, desirable to collectors. Do you have any advise?

Thank you, Sylvia

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