A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Verso the picture is marked

Verso the picture is marked again in pencil Ernest Forbes R

there are no breakages or repairs to the legs or stretchers which is commonly found on pieces like this

with stamped mark Pat Pending

5”Depth: 21”The stylised composition stone lions

Origin: ItalianPeriod: Early/Mid 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c

A Unique Late 19thC Memento Mori Telescopic Brass & Carved Bone Didactic Pointer sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Verso the picture is markedOrigin: 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