1873 Ladies Legs 4 Inch Folk Art Calipers carved face finger puppet mounted to chipboard backs

mounted to chipboard backs

This was Steig’s fourth book of "symbolic drawings

I think it's quite possible that the embroidery is older than the pouch itself--a remnant perhaps

Wear to the exterior along the spine but still tightly bound and stable

1873 Ladies Legs 4 Inch Folk Art Calipers carved face finger puppet mounted to chipboard backsI had these listed as part of a set of four 19th century ladies legs calipers I purchased together, but perhaps no one needs a collection of four, so I've decided to list them individually. Made of steel, likely by a metalworker or machinist for their own use, these are the largest, 4 inches, and the one set stamped by their maker with the year of their making, 1873. I particularly like them opened all the way out and around again so that the knees