Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice war effort collection First is the strange image

First is the strange image itself

which I return again and again as a marvelous tool for observing and thinking about my surroundings

and then Converse spelled out on the interior or the shoe

as one thinks they just really liked to draw branches--as well as stars

as it seems to me just about the most primitive

Early 20th C. Plated Pendant Vesta with Window to Tiny Bone Dice war effort collection First is the strange imageSuch 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