Miniature Red Silk Georgian Slipper Brooch Handbeaded She has dark piercing eyes

She has dark piercing eyes and black hair which has a central parting

The cat can also be removed and worn separately as a brooch

small red round beads and long bamboo beads

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Miniature Red Silk Georgian Slipper Brooch Handbeaded She has dark piercing eyesThis little antique red slipper with it's tiny cream tassle is really old. It is handmade and was used to hold a thimble back in the Georgian times when many ladies did a lot of sewing. I have in turn, sewn it onto an oval background and edged with beads to give it a new lease of life as a brooch as it's far too pretty to be hidden away in a cupboard, sewing box or dawer.