A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Antiques and surviving from the second

and surviving from the second half of the twentieth century

having a hinged cover naively decorated in pen and inkwork depicting a scene from ‘Tam o’Shanter showing a haunted church lit up

in a cerulean coloured fabric

the first wife of Henry VIII

A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Antiques and surviving from the secondOrigin: 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