Antique Cast Iron Western Style Boots Match Safe architectural Spain bright white porcelain candleholders

Spain bright white porcelain candleholders with beautifully formed flowers and gold detailing

Another beautiful old wooden stacking toy

"Germany" is impressed on the rear side of the base along with a mark that I can't quite make out

While the season for fanning my be over

It folds back up elegantly to form a rectangular box with perfectly square sides

Antique Cast Iron Western Style Boots Match Safe architectural Spain bright white porcelain candleholdersI've found a few twins of these old cast iron boots, dating them to sometime between the 1850s and the late 1800s, when apparently they were commonly seen in saloons and cigar shops, where they functioned as match holders. I do rather love the vision of a series of them lined up along the bar in a lively saloon somewhere out west, serving up matches to cowboys! Especially fun with this pair is that the bolts that secure the boots to their iron base