A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus holding an hourglass and scythe

holding an hourglass and scythe

During the time this mirror was in use there was an evolution of shopkeeper opticians who sold scientific instruments for an examining nature to becoming professional scientific measurers of refractive error

We have seen one other fairly similar example

Very pretty indeed and just so very Georgian

young women) were travelling to Italy and Greece seeing the marvels of classical design for themselves and becoming inspired to bring that same sense of classical style and proportion back to Britain

A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus holding an hourglass and scytheOrigin: French or EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 22. 5Depth: 6. 5Width: 5The scarce childs polio leg brace or caliper, and original leather shoe, the whole constructed of metal, cow hide and differing leathers, to allow for the physical affects of the disease and surviving from the first decade of the twentieth century and probably France. The condition of the brace is thoroughly charming with the leather showing