Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  ceramic mouse as if he has a

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

and the hitch hiking involved

but is is good shape

Really wonderfully done

The vessel is thick walled and thus quite heavy

Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  ceramic mouse as if he has aI'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