A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles that just begins to tell

that just begins to tell Gall’s

and fringed border are rendered with painstaking care

and a smattering of yellowing to the coats in small areas

though it is only a passing similarity

there was no longer any need for pattens and the trade floundered

A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles that just begins to tellOrigin: 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