Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs tiny ship in bottle The cup shows some age

The cup shows some age and a bit of dryness to the wood

10" t x 4 5/8" w x 1/2"

one a sandpiper and the other a black-bellied plover I believe

and then more or less sequentially

18" x 18" x 1 5/8"

Satisfying Old Mechanical Tin Forked Tongs tiny ship in bottle The cup shows some ageAs I've noted elsewhere (because I'm proud of myself for doing it!), I spent several days over the holidays weeding through old boxes of stuff, almost all of which I dropped to Goodwill or boxed back up for the flea market next summer. But these I couldn't put away, they're too satisfying, and I could spend half the day just opening and closing and them, with the double hinged design making that feel a bit like a Rube Goldberg ian sort of event! The