Shoehorn
- Object Name:
- Shoehorn
- Object ID:
- 1994.006.62
- Description:
- Shoehorn, advertising. Sheet steel. Small rounded tab with hole in it bent over at more than 90-degree angle from upper end of semi-circular sheet-metal trough. Trough: 0.35" deep, 1.5" wide. Bottom end rounded. Sides curved to an arch that then flares in symmetrical shape to rounded points on either side. Outside of curved section has stamped lettering. At bottom of wide portion: "WINTER BROS. / NEWPORT, N.H." To right of that: "America's / Smartest / Walking / Shoes / ENNA JETTICKS". Decorative lines below that.
- Material:
- Metal
- Dimensions:
- W-1.5 L-3.7 D-1.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Jane Chworowsky (1929-1993), was born in PA and raised in Newport, NH. She attended Plymouth State College, and briefly taught English in Charlestown, NH (1953-55). She ran an antiques business -- Jane's Cabin Antiques -- at her home in Croydon, NH. She bequeathed the contents of her home and business to NHHS.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jane Lee Chworowsky
- Subjects:
- Shoe stores
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