A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Macabre- Medicine for the relief of pain

for the relief of pain

the whole displaying an evocative time-worn texture and surviving from the second half of eighteenth-century Italy

raised on three compressed bun feet survives from the second quarter of the nineteenth century

The illustration

1913Diameter: 9

A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Macabre- Medicine for the relief of painOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Open: 12Closed: 6 For medical use and in original condition, the memento mori didactic brass telescopic pointer, the two drawer body terminating in a rippled collar and hand carved antler human skull finial, doubling in size when extended, the whole surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. Presented in the same condition as it was made, the two drawers are operating