Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model wicker high chair 7 1/8" x 5" and

7 1/8" x 5" and in good shape

There are metal swing-up hangers mounted on the backs

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

hand-built and painted with dark brown slip

and so was thrilled to recently find a portfolio of seven of them

Crazy Looking Early 20th Century Lower Jaw Dental Model wicker high chair 7 1/8" x 5" andI 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