Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton but I happened upon it

but I happened upon it and now I’m pretty obsessed with it

I believe this was used as a reference for a much larger ledger in which the accounts of each of the individuals/families named here were kept

and a pair of stick pins used to bind it

taller at one end that the other

with some darkening to the paper along the fold lines and edges

Unusual, Substantial Pair of (Heavy!) Metal Salesman Sample/Display Loafers with Tassels toy skeleton but I happened upon itCurious. I don't know that I'd ever seen a pair of metal salesman sample shoes before, but I'm more or less certain that is what these are, given their quality and scale and specificity. (Or maybe a shoe company's gift for the loafer salesman of the year?!) They're quite substantial, beautifully crafted and quite striking, all the more so in hand, with their surface finish evincing carved stone (I keep thinking of catlinite) as much as anything and