Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model wicker high chair hand-built and painted with dark

hand-built and painted with dark brown slip

And this little humbly sewn together book

I'd call this great old tin and wood toy candlestick telephone a teaching toy--and increasingly so

what seem to me just perfect proportions

Or use it as a vase for daffodils

Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model wicker high chair hand-built and painted with darkI believe this is likely German and dates to the 1920s or so, and in the ensuing 100 years has lost a fair amount of its top layer veneer of sorts, which would have included labels for the individual molars. I love it precisely for its decay, amazing surface, and terrific object hood, recognizable as a jaw but also looking a bit like a model of earth strata, and then perhaps best of all what look like tiny faces on many of the teeth, eyes peering out