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.
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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