A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Macabre- Medicine The illustration

The illustration

though few examples have survived and none of them are dated

5” Depth: 3” (all at extremities)The attractive Regency period giltwood and gesso wall mirror having the original convex mirror plate and ebonised reeded slip

Width: 32 inches

There is a small hole present at the top of the shell for hanging purposes

A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Macabre- Medicine The illustrationOrigin: 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