Cast iron shoe/boot

[halfdime]

Okay, first a disclaimer: it's only 7:41AM so this is not today's find. What it is is a recent rediscovery. When I was a kid, we had this shoe stored in our attic. It's about five inches tall, including the pedestal it sits on, and is cast iron as opposed to steel. My mother said it was my grandmother's and thinks she got it at a shoe store where she once worked. There are no markings that I can see. My mother would really like some information about it and now that I think of it so would I! We found it recently doing some tidying and our curiosity about age and purpose has been ignited. Any thoughts? I will also post in the What is it? section but this gets more attention...

 

[Auriemma]

Its probably a door stop. No idea on value.

 

[jcobb]

I was thinking door stop too. Or something really painful to stub your toe on in the middle of the night lol

 

[stefen]

Speaking of painful, my mother used old cast IRONS as door stops...separated my toes on several occassions...

 

[Argentium]

Door stop- or perhaps one of a pair of bookends .