Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet I was thinking this guy

I was thinking this guy would be good illuminated by the folk art lamp with pin up girls I just listed

with dovetail jointed hinged lid

Mid-century or so I would guess

All Seeing Eye at top

Beautiful Old Japanese Cobbler's Templates - SOLD INDIVIDUALLY puppet I was thinking this guyI sold a pair of these several months ago but had set aside two more to enjoy myself for a while before offering them up. I know that these were brought back from Japan years ago, retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed. I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read them as patterns, but believe the quilt like collaging of silver and gold paper and blue and white fabric mark pieces to be cut and seams to be