Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives teamwork sampler I lucked out on this

I lucked out on this one though

cast iron mechanical banks of black and white bulldogs in just this pose

I'm always delighted by the humor of those Brits in the early 1800s--this Georgian snuff box immediately made me think of a Sunderland  transferware chamber pot I once had of the same period

The dark one was once marked as a ruler on the hypotenuse

It was a working decoy

Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Inuit Caribou Bone and Iron Knives teamwork sampler I lucked out on thisThese two I purchased from a favorite family run shop in New Hampshire, a great cabinet of curiosities always filled with interesting things, ancient to modern. They came from a much larger collection of antique Inuit objects that I believe were formerly held in the collection of an academic institution in New England many many beautiful tools and fragments of tools, most all of which I took the time to pick up and hold, one by one, to to my great