A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage 5”Depth: 21”The stylised composition stone

5”Depth: 21”The stylised composition stone lions

Verso the picture is marked again in pencil Ernest Forbes R

The entire composition and dome only show wear commensurate with age and an expected fade to the plumage

Width: 77 cms / 2

A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage 5”Depth: 21”The stylised composition stoneOrigin: 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