SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne which photos can't do justice

which photos can't do justice

[here's a link] As Linderman notes

so it looks quite friendly

2 15/16" w x 3/4" d

dipped in white slip and then hand-painted--ivery much n the manner of the work of famous father and son Mexican folk artists Aurelio and Francisco Flores from Izúcar de Matamoros

SOLD Old Homemade Tension Operated Mouse Trap with Wire Teeth and Carved Out Chamber Piatnik & Söhne which photos can't do justiceA bit gruesome perhaps, but I love a homemade mechanical object, and to my mind a homemade mousetrap is compelling in a similar way to a bee box an individualistic and often make do solution to the problem at hand. I'm not 100% sure exactly how this one was set, but depressing the wire handle lowers a wire loop inside the carved out barrel, while releasing it raises that loop, trapping the proverbial mouse inside, and it seems piercing its back with a