Tiny Carved Wooden Skull Paper Knife vintage Mexican animal Developed by David Wechsler and

Developed by David Wechsler and individually administered

The is a flaw in the glass at the lip

It measures 8 5/8" tall x 8" across at widest x 4 3/8" deep

and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer gives a measure of its relative density

Tiny Carved Wooden Skull Paper Knife vintage Mexican animal Developed by David Wechsler andI find this rather a haunting little carving, I assume meant to serve as a letter opener, and certainly with well more than a hundred years on it I have to think it has opened some letters bearing pretty sad news. The skull itself is tiny, but reads very clearly as a skull, which I've shot with some magnification to get a better sense of its details, which make it look a bit more crude than with viewed by the eye alone. Pretty amazing. 4" long; skull