Hip Wader Boots with Fish Ornament #050
The boot is filled with a life-like vinyl trout, a fishing pole and string, and fly fishing lures with feathers.
Ski Boot Ornament I #049
A Christmas Tree Ornament of a single ski and attached ski boot. The boot is made of poly-resin and the ski is wood. There is a narrow elastic cord used for tie-up laces.
The bottom of the ski ornament has a gold oval sticker and black writing which indicates MADE IN CHINA.
Crystal High Heel Ornaments #048
This pair of high heels are made from crystal glass and measure 3 1/2″ long and 1 1/4″ high. They are attached with gold thread which has two stickers applied to it, both reading MADE IN CHINA.
A gift from children for the Christmas tree, these were purchased for less than $3.00 and have no collector’s value, only sentimental value. Nonetheless they are a part of the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection as an acquisition in 1996.
Disney’s Mickey Mouse Shoes Wind-Up Toy #038
This a small but very cute wind-up Disney toy that looks like Mickey Mouse’s yellow shoes. Each shoe measures about 1.75-inches long with a metal bar in between them.
If you wind them up they walk (one foot takes a step then the other foot takes a step). They are plastic and the only markings on them are the words: Disney China 86388 on the bottom of one shoe.
Besides the China imprint, a tag is still attached to the bottom of the shoes marked “Walt Disney Attractions, Inc., Lake Buena Vista, FL32830 USA”.
Purchased at Walt Disney World in the Emporium in the Main Street Shops in June, 1993 for $4.00. Estmated collector’s value is $5.00 to $8.00. This toy was recently auctioned on eBay to another person for $7.26.
Baby Bootie with Silk Flowers #028
This is a white porcelain baby shoe with a blue ribbed top, peach colored stars around the bottom near the sole and dabbed flowers on the sides. It also has a dark blue painted ribbon which goes in and out of a design in the shoe.
It measures 3 3/8″ in length, 2 5/8″ in height and 2″ in width. Perfect condition, with no chips or cracks.
The shoe is decorated with a satin purple ribbon tied in a bow and a purple silk flower with leaves. It has two strands of little pearls sticking out from the flower. It is actually quite cute and fairly well made.
Yong Feng Shangdian is the store in the China Pavillion in Epcot Village in the DisneyWorld Complex in Orlando, Florida. It is the only Yong Feng Shangdian store that I have found on the Internet and there were Florida government papers documenting the formation of this store with a fictionalized name for this specific site. The shoe is assumed to have been manufactured in China.
I have no recall of purchasing this shoe, but our family did visit Epcot in 1986, so it is possible it was a purchase then. My only question is the price. Could this really have only cost $1.50? Actually it probably did. I keep forgetting that 1986 was 21 years ago.
Estimated value now is probably $7.00 to $10.00 on a site like eBay.
Information from interviews and personal papers of BJ and BP.
Green Victorian-Style Pump #025
A Christmas Ornament Shoe. These ornaments are a popular gift to me from my children (JA, JE, AB 2004) and my tree sports maybe 20 shoe ornaments,
This little shoe, nearly the size in the photograph, is a resin shoe from China. It’s detail is nice, including a ruffled opening and a raised buckle with a golden disk in the center. These shoes are a part of the Collection, because all gifts are accepted, especially Christmas gifts from children. The collection does not routinely acquire resin-based shoes.
This curiosity was purchased at a department discount store for less than $5.00 and has little to no collector value.
Red Fru-Fru Christmas Ornament Shoe #023
I promised early on that nearly any ’shoe’ was accepted (and proudly displayed) by the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection. This fancy red Christmas Ornament is no exception. Suffice to say that it was a very adored Christmas present from an adored 4 year old to her adored mother. (AB in 1992)
It is really quite something, and I am grateful for a photograph for I do not want to go into much detail – understandably. It does rather creep into your Christmas-spirit-heart, though, if given half a chance.
It is a monster ornament, 4 1/2″ high (not counting feathers and beads) and 4″ long. The material is a velveteen-sort glued over heavy cardboard 
and is trimmed in gold and red braid. Also adorned with purple gathered flowers and tiny green leaf beads. The beads are actually quite cool.
I have absolutely no hard data on this curiosity, except as with all gifts from small children, it is not for sale.
Double Dutch Christmas Ornaments #019
Dutch shoes appear in any setting, including double hung from a red ribbon. Just throw it over an evergreen branch and you’re done decorating.
Solid wood toe, painted bright blue interior, varnished wood exterior. Shoes are slightly larger than the photo.
No extra decoration on the sides; MADE IN CHINA sticker in gold and black oval.
Rough hand-painted “Holland scene” though the trees with the gray lines are unusual. Who knows?
Christmas ornament is part of the Christmas Ornament Collection, a sub-set of the Lillian P Wood Memorial Collection. This was an original pair of shoes in the collection. Unknown date. Most likely in the early 1960s.
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