Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  ceramic mouse The vessel is thick walled

The vessel is thick walled and thus quite heavy

has jointed front and back legs

The instruction booklet details the meaning of each card as well as how to read them in combination (the meeting of card 11 and card 26 equals triumph

as if he has a wedding ring in one of those pockets and is about to pop the question

with some nice irregularity to the form and weaving original to its making

Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  ceramic mouse The vessel is thick walledI've always got an eye out for beautiful 19th c. carved bone alphabets, which as I understand it were used in school as tools for teaching spelling. And certainly one could make a game of it now to see how many words one can spell with these 26 letters! A complete set, of more or less the same size, which I found box less (as is usually the case) but have placed in a nice old small handmade slide top box that seems a perfect fit and will keep them