Vintage lead crystal – Would any beauties know anything about this antique crystal shoe?

Wow, how unique!

This was on Antiques Roadshow just the other night! A lady said she had 500 different compacts, all different shapes, designs and sizes, and she thinks that`s a small collection! Apparently there`s a collectors club and they can collect in the 1000s! I like them, I think they`re lovely 🙂

Gosh, she had 500 of them! That is a lot. The antique shop I was in the other day was selling old cardboard box face powders, and they were like $50 each. They didn`t have any of the fancy compacts. I reckon those would very expensive lol.

Love this compact case but I`m afraid there are probably many BH members wondering how this at all resembles a telephone!

Maybe teens and under wouldn`t know what it was, but surely if they are over 17 they`d know it was a telephone.

Lol I remember these phones. My family used to put a padlock on them to stop people dialling to avoid unwanted phone bills. We were only allowed to make important phone calls hehe….

My grandma used to have a little wooden money box next to the phone with a picture of a phone on it with a little poem about remembering who pays the bill if you make a call 🙂

Oh these phones were so darn heavy and thats a little drawer down the bottom where wrote down everyones phone numbers 🙂

Haha yeah they are heavy! I used to play with old ones as a child. I didn`t realise it also had a little drawer for numbers.

Hi there,
I have the same exact crystal shoe given to me in 1960`s by my father.
Mine is exactly the same except……it holds small crystal salt shaker, small crystal pepper shaker and a small crystal container in the middle with a small crystal spoon. I believe that that middle section is for saccharin tablets.
I don`t have it at this home..so I can`t take a picture for you. It is beautiful. The shakers are curved to fit the curve of the shoe with the saccharin part between them. And they all sit perched on those steps inside.
Hope this helped also.