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The Fisher-Price No. 991 Music Box Lacing Shoe was manufactured for a brief window between 1964 and 1966. It holds a notable place in toy history as the very first "Little People" set to feature a shoe-shaped base, kicking off a popular design lineage for the company.

Dual-Purpose Design: It was engineered both as a musical pull-toy and an educational tool. The side holes were intended for children to practice threading a 50-inch braided shoelace to build fine motor skills.
The Music Box Mechanism: Winding the blue wooden chimney on top plays the nursery rhyme melody "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". As the music plays, an internal metal cylinder rotates, scrolling colorful paper lithograph scenes past the die-cut windows on the side. Japan musical movement.
Hidden Surprise: The light blue plastic toe is built on a hinge. Flipping it upward reveals a small hidden seating compartment designed to hold three original, straight-sided wooden Little People figures (two boys and one girl).
*Missing one of the people