Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman Box measures 3 3/4" x

Box measures 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" x 1 1/4"

with a clothespin glued to a piece of wood for the clip

today most of its thousand or so members live in Elton

9 1/4" x 4 1/8" x 1 9/16"

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Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! carved wooden woman Box measures 3 3/4" xI love this thing. The wonderful dealer I purchased it from (an artist who loves curious little things like this as much as I do) thought it along the lines of a cracker jack box ciphering wheel decoder, and I think that's right, creating a correspondence between numbers and letters, which one could use for writing, or deciphering, messages written in secret code. The center dial turns, and is incised with lines, as is the outer disk. So one course,