A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and fringed border are rendered

and fringed border are rendered with painstaking care

Largely she remains in very good order

Ta day T'was deep in magic's glow

The well-executed treatment of the mother and child in pastels make the picture more feminine

though it is only a passing similarity

A Rare Child’s Polio Leg Brace c.1900 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles and fringed border are renderedOrigin: 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