Antique tool for measuring the inside length of a shoe. Now obsolete since standard measurements, but still could may have had uses for travellers buying shoes in other countries in a hurry,

Curiosity — Found this gadget at one of my local thrift shops. It is a Dr. Scholl’s Shoe Size Detector from 1915 — spring loaded to measure the inside length of a shoe.

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