Wonderful Antique Carved Soapstone Ladies Leg! casket sill nice and bright

sill nice and bright

with cutouts in the cardboard base for each shell -- and a dry kidney bean as well to hide underneath one of them

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

These have a nice weight and gloss coating

Wonderful Antique Carved Soapstone Ladies Leg! casket sill nice and brightAmong my favorite finds of late, this beautifully carved green soapstone ladies leg, I believe likely made as a pipe tamper. Happily, her thigh terminates in a flat surface, so as to be able to display with booted foot in the air, making for a fabulous tabletop sculpture in all sorts of contexts. The form of the leg makes me believe it dates to the 2nd half of the 19th century, and the smooth green stone has accumulated a sort of gray patina over the