Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice mermaid weighs just over 8 pounds

weighs just over 8 pounds

but this is the first cup without a handle I've found

so this feels perhaps akin to picturing a fire drill or duck and cover exercise--but compared to similar cups from the period that usually depicted games like 'playing at marbles' or 'leap frog

with faces and bodies from classical sculpture and winged angels swooping in amid "objective" anatomical diagrams

Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice mermaid weighs just over 8 poundsSuch a fun one, found together in Vermont along with a second vesta I've listed today, and both clearly formerly part of a larger vesta collection. This one dates to the first decade of the 20th century I believe, with the tiny dice inside the round window made of bone. I've shot the with magnification, which reveals that some of the black dots have worn away or never were, so they're not so much dice to make bets on but to the naked eye they pass the