Antique Whale Bone Pointing Hand Pendant with Thread Hole antique birch box I also see its many

I also see  its many rooms and platforms as very conducive to the display of lots of little creatures

produced on the occasion of the 6th Annual Colonial Ball at the Hopewell Lodge

To me it feels akin to folk art clock faces used for teaching how to tell time (which I also always have an eye out for

as if just floating

6 1/8" x 6 1/4"

Antique Whale Bone Pointing Hand Pendant with Thread Hole antique birch box I also see its many(First photo is a composite, showing both sides.) Carved as a pendant, but a ladies tool as well, with a small opening created by the wrapped fingers of the hand, large enough to run a thread or thin cord through, with the extended finger then useful for pulling that thread or cord through a seam or hole. Sailor whaler made I believe, of whalebone, 19th century. Quite a nice thing to wear around one's neck now. 1 7 8" long, very good antique