SOLD Intricately Carved Small Bottle Shaped Ball in Cage Whimsy fun bell and this late 19th century

and this late 19th century  "Hidden Titles" game contains a smart thirty of them--wonderfully rendered through drawings and hand-written text lithographed onto nice weight cards--giving clues to the names of 30 places around the country and around the world

But I think the whole rendering of this fierce match is terrific

I believe done in a combo of pencil and black crayon

clearly well used

SOLD Intricately Carved Small Bottle Shaped Ball in Cage Whimsy fun bell and this late 19th centuryA charming small whimsy, and an unusual one as far as I've ever seen, shaped like a bottle I am thinking perhaps made as a toy rattle to emulate a baby bottle, and there's even some darkening to the bottom as if heated over a stove! Skillfully carved with a lovely intricacy to the neck of the bottle and "walls" at either end of the cage, which houses a very roundly caved ball. It will stand on its own on from the opening end but takes a flat surface